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AUTHOR: 


UTROPIUS 


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EUTROPII 

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Historian  Romanae  Breviarium; 

CUM 

VERSIONE  ANGLICA, 

IN  QUA  VERBUM  DE  VERBO  EXPRIMITUR  • 
NOTIS  QUOQUE  &f  INDiCE:  ' 

EUTROPIUS' 

COMPENDIOUS 

HISTORY  OF  ROME, 

TOGETHER  WITH  AN 

ENGLISH  TRANSLATION, 

AS  LITERAL  AS  POSSIBLE,  NOTES  AND  AN  INDEX. 

BY  JOHN  CLARKE, 

Author  of  the  Essays  upon  Education  and  Study, 

THIRD  jiMERICAJ\r  EDITION'. 
itevwd  and  corrected  by  SAMUEL  RUDD,  A,  B.  Teacher, 


NEW-YORK: 

PRINTED  FOR  EVERT  DUYCKINCK, 

NO,  no,  PEARL'STREET^ 

1805. 


PREFACE. 


A  HE  title  page  has  already  informed  the  reader  that  the  following 
translation  of  Eutropius  is  a  literal  one,  in  which,  if  he  knows  any 
thing  of  the  Latin  tongue,  he  will  not  look  for  polite  elegant  language, 
since  that  is  altogether  impossible  in  this  way  of  translation,  was  i 
otherwise  ever  so  capable  of  it.  The  manner  of  expression  in  the 
two  languages  differs  as  widely,  as  perhaps,  it  is  possible  the  phrase  of 
two  languages  should  do  ;  and  therefore  all  a  man  can  do  in  the  case, 
is  to  guard  against  downright  impropriety  and  absolute  barbarity, 
which  how  well  1  have  done,  the  reader  must  judge.  The  different 
genius  of  the  language  has  obliged  me,  here  and  there,  to  take  a  little 
liberty  ;  but  it  is  so  small,  that  the  translatiou  answers  the  design,  as 
iiiJly  and  effectually  as  if  it  was  strictly  literal,  i  have  likewise  found 
it  necessary,  sometimes,  for  clearing  the  sense,  or  mending  my  Eng- 
lish, to  insert  words,  which  have  none  to  answer  them  in  the  original  r 
These,  to  prevent  the  difficulty  they  might  otherwise  occasion  to  young 
boys,  are  all  along  put  in  a  different  character. 

The  usefulness  of  such  sort  of  translations  of  the  easier  classics  is  so 
exceedingly  evident,  that  no  one,  who  will  but  give  himself  the  trouble 
of  considering  the  matter  a  little,  can  fail,  I  should  think,  of  seeing  it. 
I  shall  not,  therefore,  so  far  distrust  the  reader's  understanding,  as  to 
add  any  thing  to  what  has  already  been  said  upon  the  subject  of  the 
great  usefulness  and  necessity  of  these  translations. 

1  have  translated  this  author  as  highly  proper  to  be  read  in  our 
schools,  upon  a  double  account.  First,  as  he  is  one  of  the  easiest  au- 
thors in  the  Latin  tongue  ;  and  secondly,  as  he  gives  us  a  pretty  good 
comp«nd  or  abridgment  of  the  Roman  story,  down  from  the  building 
of  the  city,  to  the  death  of  Jovian^  that  is  for  the  term  of  about  1100 
yeai-s.  And  as  the  history  of  Greece  and  Rome  is  absolutely  necessary 
for  a  scholar,  because  of  the  frequent  hints  and  allusions  thereto  in  the 
most  valuable  performances  of  the  learned,  both  ancient  and  modern, 
I  see  not  how  our  schools  can  well  be  without  this  author.  We  have  no 
where  else  so  much  of  the  Roman  history  in  so  short  a  compass ;  with- 
out a  good  acquaintance  with  which,  Virgil,  Horace  and  Juvenal, 
can  never  be  tolerably  understood.  Notes  that  explain  the  passages, 
where  the  Roman  story  is  touched  upon,  will  never  do  the  business 
effectually,  but  be  quickly  forgot,  unless  the  reader  has  a  good  general 
plan  or  view  of  the  Roman  history  in  his  head  before  hand.  Those 
masters  would  do  well  to  consider  of  this,  that  hurry  poor  children  on 
to  the  reading  of  those  sublime  and  difficult  author?,  without  the  least 
preparation  of  that  kind  ;  the  infallible  consequence  of  whi<:h  wise 
method  of  procetding  is,  that  the  boys  uev  cr  understand  them  as  they 
should  do. 


380tE0 


PREFACE; 

Th9ugb  it  requires  no  great  penetration,  I  think,  to  see  the  reason, 
ableness  of  what  I  have  advanced  ;  yet  I  have  known  this  piece  of  folly 
carried  to  such  a  height,  that  the  poor  boy«  have  been  strictly  fortid 
th«  use  of  any  notes  whatsoever  upon  Juvenal*s  satires  (the  very  nature 
and  design  of  which  kind  of  poetry  oftentimes  necessarily  involves  it 
in  obscurity)  though-  they  had  not  read  so  much  as  a  line  in  any  ane 
classic  author  of   the  Roman   history.     The    person   guilty  of  this 
strange  oversight  was  a  man  of  some  note  in  the  world,  and  pretended 
therem,  as  I  remember,  to  follow  the  example  of  Dr.  Bdsby.     But 
if  the  Doctor  thought  notes  upon  that  author  useless  to-his  scholais, 
he  surely  tw^k  care  before  jhe  entered  them,  to  bring  them  pretty  w.;ll 
acquainted  with  the  history  and  antiquities  of  Romey  together  with  tlie 
heathen  my tbol(^y:  Or  else,  I  may  venture  to  say,  he  never  had  a 
scholar  m  his  hfe,  that  could  any  where  make  out  twenty  lines  togs- 
ther,  without  his  help  :   If  he  could,  I  am  sure  he  most  have  been  a 
«onjuror.     Good  dictionaries,  indeed,  might  give  them  some  relief; 
but  those  would  not  go  far,  nor  do  the  business  half  so  effectually  as  a 
previous  acquaintance  with  the  antiquities,  history  and  mythology. 
Nay,  even  with  all  that  apparatus  for  the  reading  of  Juvenal,  goc'd 
notes  are  absolutely  necessary  for  the  perfect,  easy,  expeditious  un- 
derstanding of  that  difficult  authoF. 

it  is  the  business  of  the  master  to  make  all  things  as  easy  as  possibhs 
and  not  to  fiigbten  youth  from  books  and  study,  by  putting  unnecest* 
«ary  difiiculties  upon  them.     The  not  attending  duly  to  this  grand 
principle  of  education,  but  rather  affecting  a  quite  contrary  conducit, 
and  forcing  them,  by  the  terror  of  the  lash,  to  haimner  out  their  busii- 
neas  in  a  |>oor  bungling  manner  by  themselves,  has  been  the  occasioj» 
that  many,  who  have  run  through  our  schools,  and  whose  business  ija 
the  world  requnes  they  should  be  scholars,  have  but  a  very  sorry  pit- 
tance of  learaiog  to  support  that  character.     It  is  my  intention  here, 
and  in  my  other  performances  of  this  kind,  to  remedy,  as  much  as 
lies  in  me,  this  crying,  this  intolerable  grievance;  and  if  I  can  be  s» 
happy  in  the  execution  of  this  my  design,  as  to  giie  satisfaction  t» 
the  learned  and  judicious,  1  have  my  end,  the  very  utmost  of  my  am- 
bition, and  sbaH  think  myself  amply  rewarded  in  their  favour  and 
approbation  for  all  my  pains.  > 

This  is  now  the  second  classic  author  I  have  published  with  this  view, 
I  call  him  a  classic  author ;  for  though  he  lived  in  times  when  the  Latin 
tongue  was  very  much  upon  the  decline,  yet  he  has  so  well  imitated 
the  style  of  the  purer  ages,  excepting  some  few  passages,  that  he  has, 
by  the  learned,  been  allowed  a  place  in  that  number. 

All  I  have  foj  ther  to  say,  is  to  adveitise  the  reader  that  the  account: 
•f  EuTBOPius,  by  Gerard  Vossius  is  not  literally  translated,  because 
not  inserted  here  for  the  reading  of  boys  io  the  school,  by  way  of 
it-ssoo. 


GERARD  VOSSIUS' 


ACCOUNT  OF  EUTROPIUS. 


E, 


fUTROPIUS,  sophis- 
ta  Italus,  ut  eum  vocat 
Suidas,  cum  alia,  quae- 
dam  eodem  teste,  turn 
Breviarium  scripsit  re- 
rum  Romanorum  ab  urbe 
condita  usque  ad  Flavi- 
um  Valentem  Augus- 
tum  cui  &  opus  suum  di- 
cavit.  Militasse  se  ait  sub 
Juliano,  atque  expedi- 
tion! ejus  in  Persas  inter- 
fuisse :  Quo  Sc  perti- 
nent verba  Gcorgii  Codi- 
ni  in  selectis  de  origini- 
bus  Constantinopolitanis, 
ubi  sic  scribit,   EuT^oTri®- 

Lau- 
dat  vero  eum  tcstem  in 
rebus  Constantini  Mag- 
ni,  qua  oculis  suis  vidisse 
cum  ait.  Atque  ex  his  pa- 
tet  errorPtolemaei,  &  hu- 
jus  se  auctoritate  tuentis 
Raphelis  Volaterrani,qiii 
Etjnopium  hunc  fuisse 
putarunt  discipulum  Bea- 
ti  Aiigustini.  Quas  &  sen- 
Untia  est  Uesneri^  6c  E- 


E 


UTROPIUSy  an  Italian 
sopJiistj  as  Suidas  calls  him^ 
wrotCy  as  the  same  author  iii^ 

forms  us  J  besides  other  things, 
a  briej  history  oj  the  Romans 

from  the  building  of  the  city,  to 
the  time  of  the  Emperor  Flavius 
Falensy  to  whom  he  also  dedi-^ 
cated  his  work.  He  says  he  ser^ 
ved  in  the  wars  under  Julian^ 
and  went  along  with  him  in  hia 
exfiedttion  against  the  Persia 
ans:  As  appears  likewise  from 
the  words  (^George  Codinusy 
in  his  select  observations  rela- 
ting to  the  antiquities  of  Con- 
stantino/ile,  wherein  he  thus 
writes,  Eutropius  the  sophist, 
who  was  with  Julian  the  Apos- 
tate in  Persia.    He  quotes  him 

for  the  transactions  of  Constan* 
tine  the  Great,  which  he  says  he 
had  seen  with  his  own  eyes,  jind 

from  henre  afipears  the  mistake 
of  Ptolemy,  arid  of  Rafihael 
Volaterranus,  who  goes  upon 
his  authority^  and  who  fancied 
this  Eutrofiiua  to  have  been  a 
disciple  of  St,  Justin,  Which 
is  likrwixt  the  opinion  ofGemer 
and  of  E^in^riniwt^     and  of 

A2 


vi  Gerard  Vossius*  Account  of  Eutropius. 


singrinii,  &  TheodoriuZ 
cngeri,  Theatri  sui  volu- 
mine  VT.  Lib.  II.  ad  haec 
Possevini  in  Apparatu  Sa- 
cro,  atque  aliorum.  In  er- 
ronemomneseos  impulit> 
quod  Gennadius,  in  illus- 
trium  Virorum  catalogo, 
Eutropiumquendam  refe- 
rat,  de  quo  hunc  in  mo- 
dum  apud  eum  legilup: — 

*  Eutropius        presbyter 

*  scripsit  ad  duas  sorores, 

*  ancillas  Christi,  quae  ob 

*  devotionem  pudicitiae,  & 

*  amorem    religionis  ex- 

*  haeredatsB  sunt  a  parenti- 

*  bus,  epistolas  in  modurn 

*  libellorum  consolatorias 

*  elegant!  Scapertosermo- 
'  ne  duas,  non  solum  ra- 

*  tione,sed  eiiam  testimo- 

*  niis  scripturarum  muni- 

*  tas.*      Meminit   autem 
ejus  Gennadius  post  Au- 
gustinum,    Orosium,    & 
alios,    Hunc  illi  esse  bre- 
viarii  acriptorcm  credid- 
«runt.     Scd  tempora  re- 
pugnant, cum  auctor  bre- 
viarii,  Constaniini    ejus- 
que  liberorum,    Juliani, 
Joviani,  &  Valentis  tem- 
poiibus  vixerit ;  at  non  i- 
tem  GratianiautTheodo- 
«ii ;  saltem  non  Arcadii, 
^  Honorii ;  ut  Augustino 
esse  junior  non  possit.  Ad 
lixc  ille  Gennadio  memo- 
Tatus presbyter  erat,  at  hie 
an  Christianus  fuerit,  me- 

Jitot  ambigitur  ^  ^un  re* 


Gerard  Voasiun*  Account  of  Eutropius.  tIi 


Theodore  Zuengerus^  in  the 
6th  volume  of  his  Theatre^  book 
2,  as  likewise  of  Possevinus  in 
his  ^fiparatuB  Sac er  and  other lu 
What  led  them  all  into  this 
mistake,  is,  that  Gennadius,  in 
his  catalogue  »f  illustrious  men 
has  put  down  one,  of  whom  he 
s/ieaks  in  thef allowing'  manner  : 


Eutrofiiu9,  afiresbyter,  wrote 
to  two  sisters,   handmaids  qf 
Christ,  who  for  their  invinci- 
ble   inclination    to   a   life  of 
chastity  and  zeal  for  religion^ 
were    disinherited  by   their 
parents^  two  letters  ofconso^ 
lation,    that    they    may  well 
pass  for  two  little  books,  in  a 
handsome  clear  style,  sufipor» 
ted  not  only  by  reason,   but* 
quotations  out  of  the  scrip» 
tures,*  JVow  Gennadius  meih, 
ions  him  after  Austin,  Orosius^^ 
and  others.     This  they  suppo- 
sed to  be  the  author  of  the  brief 
history.     But   the   times  wiU 
not  allow  of  it,  since  the  author 
of  the  brief  history  lived  in  the 
days  of  Constantine   and  his 
sons,    of  Julian,    Jovian  and' 
Valens;  but  not  likewise  inGra* 
tian's  or  Theodosius*;  however 
notinjlrcadius*  andHonorius* ; 
so  t/tat  he  cannot  be  younger 
than  Jiustin,     Besides  the  per» 
*on  mentioned  by    Gennadius 
was  a  presbyter  ;  but  whether 
this  Eutropius  was  a  Christian 
is  questioned,  and  not  without 

reason  ^mc€  Ac  ^ays  nothing 


ticeat  Christianorum  per- 
secutiones  X,  ac  in  Jovi- 
ano  aperte  ^uadeat  perfi- 
diam.  SciotssequiChris- 
tianuni  fuisse  culligant  ex- 
inde,quod  de  Juliano  scii- 
bat,  Religionis  Chuis- 

TIANJE  InSECTATOR,  PF- 
RINOE  TAMJ&N  UT  CRU- 
ORE    ABSTINF.RET.        Scd 

ita  quoque  sc:  ibere  potuit 
gentilis,  saltem  qui  in  con- 
finio  tenebrarum  ac  lucis 
constitutus,  nee  Gcnlilcm 
religionem  probaret,  nee 
Christians  tamen  nomen 
«  dtdisset ;  quales  seculum 
]  illud  habuit  mulios.  Sed 
utcumque  hojc  est,  tempo- 
ra, ut  vidimus,  eos,  refel- 
lunt,  qui  Augustino  Eu- 
tropium  faciunt  juniorem. 
Stylum  si  spectes,  parum 
est  concinnus;  scd  hoc 
xtati,  qua  vixit  tribuamus. 
Kes  vero  ipsas  compendio 

I  satis  commodo,  constrinx- 
it.  Sane  quanti  a  Grxcis 
fieri  solebat,  vel  argumen- 
to  illud  erit,  quod  Capito 
historicus  Lycius  epito- 
mes Eutropii  scripserit 
Graece ; 

ut  Suidas  docet  in 
Imo  &  Simlerus,  in  Ap- 
pendice  bibliothecx  Ges- 
neri,  testatur,  in  biblio- 
theca  P.  Pithsi  extare 
Komanae  Eutropii  histo- 
rix.  Ac  video  quaedam 
ex  Paeaniohoccitari  aSca- 
ligei'o.    Compendio  Eu« 


of    the    ten  persecutions,    and 
in  hits  account  of  Jovian,  avow-» 
edly  pleads  for  breach  o/ faith» 
I  know   there  are   some  wh9 
guesi  Aim  to  have  been  a  Chris-, 
tian,  from  what  he  says  about 
Julian,   *  J  persecutor  of  the 
Christian  religion  ^  yet  so  as  to 
abstain  from  bloocU*  But  a  Heam 
then  might  write  so,  at  least  one 
who  being  ufion  the  confines  of 
darkness  and  light,  neither  apm 
proved  of  the  Pagan  reltgion^ 
nor  was  yet  a  convert  to  the 
Christian;  and  such  there  were 
a  great  many  in  that  age.    But 
let  that  be  as  it  will,  the  differ» 
ence  in  point  of  time,  as  we  have 
already    observed,    sufficiently 
confutes  those  who  makes  £u» 
tropius  younger  than  jiustin.  If" 
you  consider  his  style,  it  is  not. 
the  most  elegant ;  but  that  is  t<y 
be  imputed  to  the  age  he  lived 
in.  Yet  he  has  given  us  the  story 
in  a  pretty  handsome  abridg- 
ment.   How  much  it  was  valued 
by  the  Greeks  is  apparent Jr cm 
the  Greek  translation  made   of 
it  by  Capito,    the  historian  of 
Lycia,  as  Suidas  informs  us  in  „ 
the  article  of 


Nay  Simler  too,  in  hisappendtj^ 
to  Gesner*s  Bibliothcque,  saySy . 
there  is  in  the  library  qf  P,  Pim 
thoeus,  Paanius*  translation  9f< 
the  Roman  history  of  Eutropi*^ 
us.  And  J  find  some  things  quo» 
ted  out  of  this  Pceanius  by  Scali^ 

Scr%  i^uiUui  DiUQonus  hasscaui 


viii  Gerard  Vossius^  Account  of  Eutropius. 


tropii  Paulus  Diaconus, 
malo  sane  exemplo,  sua 
intersit;  ut  liquet  ex  un- 
decim  primis  historic  mi- 
scellx  libris  ;  de  quibus 
dicemus,  cum  ad  Paulum 
Diaconum  deventumerit. 
Meminit  &  Eutropii  Beda 
Hist.  Angl.  Lib.  I.  Cap. 
XI»  &  qui  sxculo  toto  Be- 
da junior  est,  Hincmarus 
Rhemensis,  opusculo,  ad 
Hincmarum  Laudunen- 
sem  Cap.  XVI.  Ubi  de 
castello  Lauduno  loquens 
ait,  QuodsicutEutrofHus, 
'  antiquus  historiograph- 

*  us,   dicit,  auctore  Mac- 

*  robioprxtoreconditum. 

*  Ab   exordio  sui  in   Pa- 

*  ganismo  inter  civitates, 

*  vel    provinciales   sedes 

*  nomen  k  locum  non  ha- 

*  buit.*  Facit  &  mentio- 
nem  Flodoardus  Pontif 
Hem.  lib.  I.  cap.  I.Sc  Leo 
Ostiensis  (qui  Alexii  & 
Henrici  Imp.  temporibus 
fuit)  Chronici  Casinensis 
lib.  L  cap.  XVII.  De 
Eutropio  hoc  satis,  a  quo 
diversus  est  Eutropius 
grammaticus,  quern  de 
literis  testem  laudat  Pris- 
cianus  lib.  I.  item  Eutro- 
pius medicus,  memoratus 
Marcello  Empirico  prje- 
fat.  operis  de  medica- 
isientis* 


dalomlijjoiated  some  of  his  stuff 
into  the  com/iend  of  Eutrofiius., 
as  appears  from  the  1 1  first 
books  of  his  miscellaneoua  histo*» 
ry  ;  concerning  ivhich  we  shall 
say  more  J  ivhen  we  come  to  Pau- 
lus Diaconus,  Bede  too  make& 
mention  of  Eutropius  in  his 
English  history  ^b.  1.  chafi,  M.. 
And  Hincmarus  ofRheims^  wht 
is  a  whole  age  later  than  Bede,^ 
does  the  same  in  a  little  treatise' 
of  kisy  addressed  to  Hjncmaru& 
of  Laudun^  chap,  1 6.  Where 
speaking  of  the  castle  oj  Law 
duny  he  says,  *  IVhich,  as  Eutro- 

*  piusy    an    ancient    historian^ 

*  writes^  was  built  by  Afacro^ 
'  bius,  theprator.  Upon  itsfrst 
'  building  under  Paganism,  it 

*  had  no  name  or  place  amongst 

*  cities  or  country  towns,' 
Flodoardus,  bishop  of  Rheims, 
takes  notice  of  him  too,  b,  1, 
ch.  1.  and  Leo  o/  Ostia^  (who 
lived  in  the  times  of  the  Empe- 
rors Alexius  and  Henry)  in 
his  chronicle  of  Casinum,  b.  1, 
ch.  1 7,  And  so  much  for  Eu* 
tropius^ik>hom  we  are  not  to  can- 

found  with  Eutropius  the  gram" 
marian^  whom  Prisciun  quotes 
about  the  letters^  b.  1 .  JVor  with 
Eutropius  the  Physician^  men- 
tioned by  Marcellus  Empiricua 
in  the  preface  to  his  treatise  of 
medicines* 


DOMINO 

VALENTIy 

GOTHICO, 
Maximo,  Perpeluo, 


AUG  US  TO. 


TotherORD 

FALENS;^ 

GOTHICK, 

Great,  Immortal  and 
AUGUST,* 


R 


ESRomanis,  ex  voluU' ' 
tate  mansuetudinia  tua,  ad 
urbe  condita   ad  nostram 
memoriam,  quee  in  negotiia 
vel  bellicis,  vel  civilibus 
eminebanty    per    ordinem 
temporum  brevi  narratione 
collegi,  strictim  odditis  eti- 
am  lis,  qua  in  princifium 
vitis  egregia  cxstiterunt; 


I 


HAVE  collected  in  a  brief 
narrative,and  in  order  of  time, 
the  Roman  affairs,  from  the 
building  of  the  city,  that  ap- 
peared the  most  considerable, 
in  the  transactions  either  of 
war  or  peace,  according  to 
the  pleasure  of  your  ♦clemen- 
cy, adding  withal,briefly  those 
things,  which  were  remark*» 


r.  This  Valens  was  taken  in  by  the  Emperor  Valentinian  the  first,  as 
bis  partner  in  the  empire,  in  the  year  of  Christ  364.  He  manaRed 
tl  ''Z!^''  soai«  time  against  the  Goths,  which  was  the  occasion  of  his 
m\Ue  Gothicus.  He  received  a  dangerous  wound  by  an  arrow  in  a  battle 
«gainst  the  same  Goths,  and  upon  his  being  carried  out  of  the  field  in- 
o  a  house  not  far  off,  was  pursued  by  them,  and  burnt  alive,  together 
ivith  the  house,  m  the  year  of  Christ  377. 
2.  The  title  of  Augustus  is  equivalent  to  that  of  Emperor,  it  was 
t  first  given  by  the  Senate  to  Octavius,  the  nephew  and  adopted  soa 
n  Juhus  Caesar,  and  kept  by  the  following  Emperors. 

*  This  title  of  Mansuetudv,  as  well  as  Trunfuuita^,  and  several 
►thers  was  applied  to  the  Emperors  in  the  same  manner  as  his  M^d^.ti/ 
s  now  to  Kings.  They  were  introduced  not  ion?  btfoie  these  times 
•y  the  sordid  flattery  of  the  people,  confirmed  by  the  want  of  sens^ 
m  modesty  m  the  Emperors,  who  tamely  sufteied  them>elves  to  be 
iOdressed  in  such  a  kind  of  kmguage  as  was  only  proper  to  the  Deity. 
hi  u-    •^*'*'®^  *^^  Koawns,  were  wholly  sUacgers  to  any  thing  of 


DEDICATION. 


4it  tranquilitatis  tue  fiossit 
mens  divina  latari,  prius 
se  illustrium  virorum facta 
in  administrando  imfierio 
sfquutam,  quam  co^osce- 
ret  hctione* 


able  in  the  lives  of  the  Empe- 
rors  ;  fthat  the  divine  mind  of 
your  tranquillity  may  rejoice 
to  find  it  has  followed  the  con* 
duct  of  illustrious  men  in  go- 
verning the  empire,  before  it 
was  acquainted  therewith  by 
reading. 


f  Our  author  makes  the  Emperor  here  but  a  coarse  kind  of  com- 
liliment,  in  supposing  the  divine  mind  of  his  tranquillity,  as  he  words 
himself,  so  very  ignorant  of  the  Roman  history,  at  an  age  when  he  is 
capable  of  commanding  armies,  and  had  done  it  for  some  time  against 
he  Goths  J  either  the  Emperor,  or  those  charged  with  the  caie  of  his 
t«iucfttioD,  must  kav€  been  highly  to4)lame,  if  our  author  says  tree. 


EUTROPII 

BREVIARIUM 

historije  romance. 

LIBER  L 


R< 


^OMANUM  Tmpcri. 
um,  quo  neque  ab  exor- 
dio  uUum  fere  minus,ne- 
que  incrementis  toto  orbe 
amplius,  humana  potest 
memoria  recordari,  a  Ro- 
mulo  exordium  habet,qui 
Vestalis  virginis,  &  (quan- 
tum putatus  est)  Martis, 
cum  Remo  fratre,  uno 
partu  editus  est.  Is  cum 
inter  pastores  latrocina- 


Ti 


HE  Roman  empire^  than 
which  the  hi  tory*  c/  mankind 
cannot  furnish  us  with  any  aU 
mont^  less  in  its  originals  nor 
grtattr  in  its  inert a^e^  through" 
out  the  ivhole  worlds  has  itn  be- 
ginning  from  Romulus  sWho  be- 
ing tiie  son  of  a  vestal  f  Min^ 
and  (ua  was  su/:fiostdJ  o/Marsy 
was  born  at  the  same  birth  with 
hia  brother  Remus,  He  whilst 
he  *  robbed  amongst  ihe  shefim 


ta-  ^j»«»e  to  render  the  word  memoria  history,  a  sense  it  sometimes 
.r!i  *'<*"»■  author  must  be  supposed  to  have  used  it  in  its  ordinary 
aav!  I  "*  I  ^^  °°*  ""^^^  tolerable  sense  can  be  uiaae  of  what  he 
anfhn  /a^.  ^^^  ^^*"**  ^*-'^'*^'-»  »«  the  only  sense  it  hath  in  good 
aut^o.s,  does  not  ag.ee  « ith  my  translation  of  mmono  ;  but  I  am  apt 

d^v.!lr^r    '"  .T^  "''"'  ""J^'^^^'  'y>  ^«d  may  be  an  instance  ol  that 

authSimr        ''""'^  "'  '^"  ^'''"  *^"^^'  ^*^'"'  prevaUed  m  our 

iroti^''^^""'  -^'"'V^^y  not  s^em  very  proper;  tut  it  is  certain  the 
word  v.r^ois  sometimes  used  ev en  in  Terence  itself,  for  a  young  wo- 
man  after  the  bearing  of  a  chud. 

wmJnfL"'**"*  ingenious  lady,  daughter  of  Tanaquil  le  Fevre,  wh* 

wl^d!  .^f."TJ"''T"'*.  '■^*'  ''^  "^  ^^  ^^^  ^«"l>h'n.  and 'after! 
^ards  ma  Tied  Mons.   Daci.r,   cabinet  maker  to  the  late  French 

•s^met^ml  quotes  Plautus;  in  whose  time,  ir  is  true,  the  word  wai 
da?f.  fT  ^*^  used  i  but  thaft  sense  of  it  was  out  of  date  long  before  the 
«oh^,  ^"trop.us,  who  had  be  used  it  so,  would  have  been  understood  by 
Sie«t/A.w  1"^^^^^  ""'^'  '^*  '^^"  '^"^  •"  antiquity  as  to  know  the  an- 
to  renir  i»  1^*  ?'*"''^  ^  °°^  "^^y  "^^'y-  *  ^»»«>^»  therefore, 
ttiJht  «  »>f  .'"  u^  ^"I>'  sense  it  had  in  our  author's  time.  Romuiu» 
«'«01,  as  f  lutarch  says,  defend  his  neighbwi'  shephtrds  against  tq^ 


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EUTROPn 


LIBER  I. 


retur,    octodecim    annos  herds,  being  \Q  yean  old,  buiU 

natus,  urbcm  exiguam  in  a  little  city  ufion  the  Palatine 

in  Falatino  monte  constl-  mount,  upon  the  eleventh  of  the 

tuit,  XI.  Kal.  Maii,  Olym-  *calends  of  May,  in  the  third 

piadis  sext«  anno  tertio,  year  of  the  ,ixth  \Olymfiiad,  in 

post  1  roj»   excidium,  ut  the  \^94th  year    afler  the  dc- 

qut    plunmum    minimum'  struction  of  TroyA\ 
gue  tradunt,  trccentesimo, 
nonagesimo  quarto. 

bers,  and  rob  too  by  way  of  reprisal.     There  was  nothin-  more  com. 

wealths  it^of T^  '°"  1.  ^'^  "*"'"'  "^^"  kingdon,s"aad  eomZ: 
iveal  hs  weie  of  very  small  extent,  than  for  parties  in  states  that  bor. 

dered  upon  one  another,  to  sally  oat  of  the  c-onfines.  of  their  own  litd^- 
territory  to  rob  their  borderers.     C«sar  informs  us  tha    n  his  time  th.: 
KhL'vH  r^'"^'  commendable  and  glorious «mong'IhrG^r'; 
and  Thucydides  gives  no  better  account  of  the  Greeks  and  their  neiirU. 
*»ors,  some  generations  before  his  own  time.  ^ 

*  The  first  day  of  every  naonth  was  called  the  calends,  and  th<« 
daysfromthe  13th  in  some,  and  the  15th  in  others,  t^rrecko.^d  bv 

Sly^'ortL^fs^oftt  "'  ^^'  "  ''^  ''''  ^^  before thffirstolf 

beil,  Jt  te^rm  ?rf  "*'  '"'^"^  ^  ^^"r '  "^'^  ^'  ^^^^  *™«"5st  the  Greeksi 
the  Lst  o?pl,n  '"^^'"'  so  denominated  from  01ymj>ia,  a  town  in 
the  nest  of  Peloponnesus,     nigh  the  river  Alpheus.    where    everv 

g/JcT\^T'  ''''''  ""^^'^'■^^^^  ^y  ^  '^'  concoul^^eof  p^opleToS 

t^rvou  bv  th';r"'-  Z*^"'"  «^^^  ^^'«^^  ^^^^  ^^^^^-^^^  they 
teiJ  you,  by  the  famous  Hercules,  but  after  his  time,  discontinued 

four  vTr'^f '°"'?K^'  '^''^  *"  '^'  y^^'  ^^-'-^  Christ  775.  Thefirst 
^ITf  ""  ^^^  'r*'^'  ^*  '^^"^  ^««  termed  the  first  Olympiad, 
^l  Grfel  fjr'l  '^'  n^^  Olympiad,  and  »o  en.  And  whe,^ 
the  Greek^  took  notice  of  the  tiuic  ot  any  tiansaction,  they  said  it 
fell  out  m  the  1st,  2d,  3d,  or  4th  year  of  such  an  Olympiad. 

+  I  he  destruction  of  Troy  hapi.ened  accoi  cling  to  the  best  chrono- 
iDgers,  1 184  years  before  Christ,  and  Rome  was  built  about  752    ?h^ 

bi^rg^RotrL^^^^^^^        ^*^-^«-  ^^T-y  t^^i  th': 

If  As  the  words  ut  qui  plnrimvm  minimumrte  trodunt  hare  visibly  no 
meanmg,  1  have  not  translated  them.  Madam  Dacier,  indeed  make! 
«o  difficulty  of  them,  though  she  says  a  great  many  before  trbad! 
to  make  up  the  ^nse,  she  informs  us  we  are  to  understand  the  wo^ 
II' Pr^teream  after  uf,  which  to  be  sure  makes  ^ood  sense    but  if 

t£^^  wo?ds  oul    fo^'  nt'""^  '^  '"  ^^P***^'  *"  ^^'«^^^^^^  »^«-J^ 
ted    b^  what  Li    °^'^/°L*"  ^"^''^«o^  ^P««king  onght  to  be  omit. 

fSklth^nlh        ''"'.**' ^  ""^^'^'  '^'"^«"^  ^*««  expressed, 
^  f b!^  1    .    K    ^""'^  '''''^'  ^'^  "^'-     '^'^e  «ame sentence  occcTrs  again 


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2.Conditacivitate,qaam 
ex  nomine  sue   Romam 
vocavit,     hsc    fere    egit. 
multitudinem     finitimor- 
um  in  civitatcm  recepit ; 
centum  ex  senioribus  ele- 
git, quorum  consilio  om- 
nia ageret ;  quoi  senato- 
res  nominavit  propter  se- 
nectutem.  Tunc,  cum  ux- 
ores  ipse  8c  populus  non 
haberent,      invitavit     ad 
spectaculum  ludorum  vi- 
cinas  urbi  nationes,  atque 
earum    virgines    rapuit. 
Commotis  bellis  propter 
raptarum  injuriam,  Creni- 
nenses  vicit,  Antcmnates, 
Crustuminos,  Sabinos,Fi- 
denates,     Vejentes  (hsc 
omnia  oppida  urbem  cin- 
gunt.)  Et  cumortabubito 
tempestate  non  compar- 
uisset  anno  regni  trigesi- 
mo  sepiimo,  adDeostran- 
sisse  creditus,   consecra- 
tus  est.  Deinde  Romre  per 
quinos  dies  senatores  im- 
peraverunt,    &    his    reg- 
nantibus  annus  unuscom- 
pictus  est. 

3  Postea  Numa  Pom- 
pilii.s  rex  creaius  est  qui 
bellum  nullum  quidem 
gessit,  sed  non  minus  ci- 
vitati  quam  Romulus  pro- 
fuit.    Nam  &  leges  Ro- 


2.  Having   built    the    cityy 
which  he  called  by  his  own  name 
Kome,     he    perfoimtd     these 
things.   He  took  great  numbers 
of  his  neighbors   into  his  city* 
He  chose  a  hundred  of  the  eld- 
ers of  the  people  ;    by  whose 
advice  he   majiaged  all  his  af- 
fairs, whom  he  called  se?iators 
because  of  their  age.    Then,  as 
he  and  his  peojile  had  no  wives, 
he  invited  the  nations,  neigh- 
bors to  his  city,  to  the  sight  of 
games,    and    seized    all    their 
young  women.    Wars  commence 
i^gfor  the  injustice  of  seizing 
the  women,  he  conquered  the 
Caninensians,     the     jintemna- 
tians,  Crustuminians,  Sabines^ 
Fidenatians,    Vejentians,    (alt 
these  towns  surround  the  city.) 
And  as  in  a  storm  that  rose  all 
on  a  sudden^  he  disappeared  in 
the  ^7th  year  of  his  reign,  be* 
ing  supposed  to  have  gone  to 
the  Gods,  he  was  accordingly 
deified.  Jfttr  that,  the  senator» 
reigned  at  Rome  for  five  day» 
each,  and  whilst  they  r eigne d^ 
one  year  was  completed, 

3.  Afterwards  Mima  Pom* 
fiilius  was  made  king,  who  car* 
ried  on  indeed  no  war,  but  was 
no  less  serviceable  to  the  city 
tJian  Romulus.  For  he  estab-. 
lished   laws    and    wholesome 


to  believe  the  words  eos  prxteream  had  by  the  carelessness  of  some 
copier  of  looks  been  omit  ed  j  for  without  that,  or  sonmhing  equiva- 
lent, this  passage  is  :ai|;erfect,  and  without  sense.  If  th  author  must 
be  supposed  to  have  left  it  to  be  understood,  it  w^s  an  inexcusable 
blunder  iii  him. 

B 


12 


EUTROPn 


retur,  octodecim  annos 
natus,  urbcmexiguam  in 
in  Palatino  monte  constU 
tuit,  xi.  Kal.  Maii,  Olym- 
piadis  sextx  anno  tertio, 
post  Troj»  excidium,  ut 
gui  /ihirunum  minimwri' 
^ue  tradunt^  trccentesimo, 
nonagesimo  quarto. 


herds,  being  \  8  yeara  old,  buih 
a  little  city  upon  the  Palatini, 
mounts  ufion  the  eleventh  of  the 
*calends  of  May,  in  the  third 
year  of  the  aixth  ^Olympiad,  in 
the  ^Z94th  year  after  the  de^ 
struction  of  Troy.\\ 


i 


LIBER  I. 


13 


wealths  ,va.e  of  ve^f^^lLxtX  ha  rt'^anS^ir^a^rh^r'" 
«Jered  upon  one  anotiipr    to  sallv  c!^^^\JV     P^^'^s  .n  states  that  bor- 

bors    some  genemtions  before  his  own.  time  "  "'-■'^''- 

Jhe,>d,sta„ce  r™.  «he^ t^ da^ I^thf ^'iLVdt^VSr^i'nr'  Hn^ 

the  fvesi  of  HeloZinesu,'  ^"  ^'"^""""^''fi""'  Olymi««,  atowni» 
^"=Xe£in£f  "—  oreSorSeTo- 

four  years  frj^  he  revival  otfh^'"''  ^'*^^'"  ^^"'^  '^'^'^-  '^''^^  ^''^ 
the  next  four  years  th^  •.  J  ^''^  ''''''  *^''«*^^  ^*^^  «'^^  Olympiad, 
the  GreertJkl;ice  of  t^^-  ^^'^fP'^^'  ««^  -.«»•  And  when 
feiloutia  he  1st  9W  u  ^^f  *'"^^  ^V""''^  t.aiu^act.on.  they  said  it 
I  Thl  1  ^      •;  "^'  ^*"  '^^^  y^'^*"  ^^  ^"^^  a»  Olympiad. 

|(  As  the  vvords  ui  qui  piurimvm  minmumrie  tmduni  have  vJ.^h.v  „ 

intheiastrl^i.fJi^^fV!.    .    fui    .    '''e  same  sentence  occi-rs  again 
«  Uie  ia.t  ctoi>t«  of  the  teuth  boot,  oUienvise  I  sboM  i«  iaclinaWe 


■I 


2.Conditacivitate,quam 
ex  nomine  suo   Romam 
vocavit,     hxc    fere    egit. 
multiiudinem     finitimor- 
iim   in  civitatcm  recepit ; 
centum  ex  senioribus  ele- 
git, quorum  consilio  om- 
nia ageret ;  quoA  senato- 
res  nominavit  propter  se- 
ntctutem.  Tunc,  cum  ux- 
ores  ipse  8c  populus  non 
haberent,      invitavit     ad 
spectaculum  ludorum  vi- 
cinas  urbi  nationes,  atque 
earum    virglnes     rapuit. 
Commotis  bellis  propter 
laptarum  injuriam,  Cxni- 
ncnses  vicit,  Antemnates, 
Ciusiuminos,  Sabinos,Fi- 
denates,     Vejentes   (haec 
omnia  oppida  urbem  cin- 
gunt.)  Et  cumortabubito 
tempeslate   non  conipar- 
uisset  anno  regni  trigesi- 
mo  septimo,  adDeostran- 
sisse  creditus,   consecra- 
tus  est.  Deinde  Romse  per 
quinos  diessenatores  im- 
peraverunt,    &    his    reg- 
naniibus  annus  unus  com- 
pletus  est. 

3  Postea  Numa  Pom- 
piliis  rex  creaiub  est  qui 
bellura  nullum  quidcm 
gcisit,  sed  non  minus  ci- 
vitati  quam  Romulus  pro- 
fuit.    JNan;   8c  leges  Ro- 


2.   Having   built    the    city^ 
nvhich  he  called  by  his  orjn  name 
Rome,     he     performed     these 
things.   He  took  great  numbers 
of  his  neighbors   into  his  city» 
He  choss  a  hundred  of  the  eld- 
ers  oi   the  people  ;    by  ivhose 
advice  he   majiuged  all  his  af- 
fairs, -whom  he  called  senators 
because  of  their  age.    Then,  as 
he  and  his  people  had  no  wives, 
he  invited  the  nations^  7ieicrh' 
oors  to  his  city,  to  the  sight  of 
games,    and    seized    all    their 
young  wometi.    Wars  commence 
i^igfor  the  injustice  of  seizing 
the  women,  he  conquered  the 
Cxninensiayis,     the     Antemna^ 
tians,  Crustuminiaiis,  Sabines^ 
Fidenatians,    Vcjentians,     (all 
these  towns  surround  the  city.) 
And  as  in  a  storm  that  ruse  all 
on  a  sudden^  he  disappeared  in 
the  37  (h  year  of  his  reign  ^  be^ 
ing  sup/iosed  to  have  gone  to 
the  Gods,  he  was  accoidini^ly 
deified.  After  that^  the  senator» 
reigned  at  Rome  for  five  days 
each,  and  whilst  they  r eigne d^ 
one  year  was  completed^ 

3.  Afterwards  jVuma  Pom' 
pilius  was  made  king.,  who  car* 
ried  on  indeed  no  war,  but  was 
no  less  serviceable  to  the  city 
than  Romulus,  For  he  estab- 
lished  laws    and    uholcsome 


to  believe  the  words  eos  praeteream  had  by  the  caveles5?ness  of  some 
cu|.icr  ot  I  ooks  been  omit  Cvi  ^  for  Without  that,  or  sonuihing  tquiva- 
lent,  this  passage  is  inierfect,  and  without  sense.  If  th  author  must 
be  supposed  to  have  left  it  to  be  uudersiwd,  itwas  an  inexcusai;;e 
blunder  ux  him. 


B 


u 


EUTROPII 


manis,   moresque  consti- 
tuit,      qui     consuetudine 
praeliorum  jamlatronesac 
semibaibari    putabantur. 
Annum   descripsit  in  x. 
menses,  prius  sine  aliqua 
computatione  confusum; 
&  infinita  Romae  sacra  ac 
templa  constituit.  Morbo 
decessit      quadragesimo 
tertio  imperii  anno. 


LIBER  I. 


4.  Huic  successit  Tul- 
lus  Hostilius.     Hie  bella 
reparavit,    Albanos  vicit, 
qui    ab    urbf  Roma  xii. 
milliario  sunt :  Veientes 
&  Fidenates,  quorum  alii 
sexto  milliario  absunt  ab 
urbe  Romana,  alii  octavo 
decimo,    bcllo  superavit. 
Urbem  ampliavit,  adjecto 
Calio  monte.     Cum  iri- 
ginta   duobus  annis  reg- 
nasset  fulmine  icius  cum 
domo  sua  arsit. 

5.     Post  hunc    Ancus 
Martius,    Num»  ex  filia 
nepos,    suscepit    imperi- 
um.  Contra  Latinos  dimi- 
cavit:    Aventinum  mon- 
tem  civitati  adjecit,  &  Ja- 
niculum:    Ostiam  civita- 
tem  supra  mare  sextode- 
cimo milliario  abui  be  Ro- 
mx  condidit :    Vigesimo 
quarto  anno  imperii  mor- 
bo periit. 

e.Deinde  regnum  Pris- 
cus  Tarquinius  accepit. 
Hie  numerum  scnatorum 


usfi^cs  amongst  the    Romam, 
ivho.from  a  custom  '2fJ(f/itin^, 
were  now  thought  robbers^  and 
half  barbarians,  ne  divided  the 
year  into  ten    months,    which 
had  been  confused  before,  with- 
out any  proper  reckoning  ;  and 
he  iristituted an  infinite  number 
of  holy  rites,  and  built  many 
temfiles  at  Rome,     He  died  of 
a   disease,   in    the  forty-third 
year  of  his  reign,  i 

4.  Tullus  Hostillius  succeed-  \ 
edhim.     He  renewed  the  war  j^  | 
conquered  the  Albans,  who  are  ' 
at  the  twelfth  mile  from  the  city 
of  Rome,  he  subdued  the  Veieii- 
tes  and  the  Fidenates  too,   one 
of  which  are  distant  six  miles 
from  the  city  of  Rome,  and  the 
other  eighteen.  He  enlargtd  the 
city  by  adding  mount   Caliua. 
^fter  he  had  reigned  32  ycars^ 
he  was  thunderstruck,  and  was 
burnt  ufi,     together    with  his 
house» 

5.  After  him,  Ancus  Marti, 
us,  the  grandson  ofJVuma  by  a 
daughter,  took  u/ion  him  the  go^ 
vernment.    He  fought  against 
the  Latins  ;    added  mount  A- 
ventine,  and  Janiculum  to  the 
city.     He  built  the  city  of  Ostia 
upon  the  sea,  at  the  sixteenth 
mile  from  the  city  Rome,     He 
died  a  natural  deathy  in  the  24th 
year  of /lis  reign. 


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6.  Then  Priscus  Tarquinius 
got  the  kingdom.  He  doubled 
the    number    of  the  HuatQrs^ 


duplicavit ;  ^  Circum  Ro-  built  a  *  Circus  at  Rome;  in- 
mx  xdificavit ;  hidos  Ro-  stituted  the  ^Roman  games^ 
inanos  instituit,  qui  ad  which  co?itinue  to  our  times. 
nostram  mcmoriam  per-  The  same  prince  likewise  con- 
manent.^  Vicit  idem  eti-  quered  the  Sabines,  and  added 
am  Sabinos  ;  Sc  non  pa-  to  the  territory  of  the  city  of 
rum  agrorum,  sul.latum  Rome  ?iot  a  little  land,  which 
iisdem,  uibis  Romx  tcr-  he  had  taken  from  the  same, 
jiitorio  adjunxit ;  primus-  andfrst  entered  the  city  in  iri- 
[que  triumphans  urbem  umhh.  He  made  the  walls  and 
intra vit:  Muros  fecit,  &  \Cloacc?,  He  begun  the  capital ; 
[Cloacas  ;  capitolium  in-  and  was  slain  by  the  sons  of 
choavit :  Trigesimo  oc-  Ancus,  thuit  king,  whom  he  had 
tayoimperii  anno  per  Anci  succeeded  in  the  38th  year  of 
fjlios  occisus  est,  regis  his  reign, 
ejus  cui  ipse  successerat. 

7.  Pest  hunc  Servius  7,  After  him  Servius  TuU 
Tullius  suscepit  imperi-  lius  took  ufion  him  the  govern* 
um,  genitus  ex  nobili  foe-  ment,  born  of  a  noble  woman^ 
mina,  captiva  tamen,  8c  but  yet  a  captive  and  a  maid* 
ancilla.  Hie  quoque  Sabi-  servant.  He  too  subdued  the 
nos  subegit :  monies  tres,  Sabines,  and  added  three  moun* 
Quirinalem,  Viminalem,  tains,  the  Quirinal,  Viminaly 
Esquilinumurbi  adjunxit,  and  Esquiline  to  the  city,  and 
fossas  circum  murum  drew  ditches  around  the  walU 
duxit.  Primus  omnium  He  likewise  first  instituted 
Censum  ordinavit  qui  ad-  the  \\  Census,  which  had  been  as 
hue  per  orbem  terrarum  yet  unknown  in  the  world,  Un- 
incognitus  erat.    Sub  eo    der    him,     all    people     being 

*  The  Circus  was  a  large  circular  sort  of  building,  with  rows  of  seats 
rising  one  above  anotker,  in  which  the  people  were  presented  witli 
public  games  for  their  diversion. 

t  These  Lmli  Romani  were  likewise  called  Ma^ni,  and  instituted  ifi 
honor  of  Jupiter,  Juno  and  Minerva.  For  the  heathen  worship  con- 
sist«d  mostly  in  music,  dancing  and  other  diversions,  it  is  strange 
t.iat  nations  so  polite  and  knowing  as  the  Greeks  and  Romans,  could 
t-imk  hddluig  and  piping,  dancing,  wrestling,  runnincr  and  fighting, 
could  be  agreeble  to  their  gods,  or  a  proper  way  of  worshipping  them. 

+  J  hese  were  very  wide  subterraneous  canals  for  conveying  the 
filth  of  the  town  into  the  river. 

II  1  retain  in  the  translation  the  Latin  word,  because  our  language 
has  none  to  answer  it ;  it  signifies  a  smvey  or  account  taken  of  the 
people,  1.  e.  their  estates,  callings,  habitations,  &c.  iii  order  to  an 
equal  taxation  of  them  for  the  public  service. 


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Roma,omnibusincensum 
delalis,  habiiit  capitum 
Ixxxiv.  millia  civium  Ro- 
manorum,  cum  hi^  qui  in 
aj^ris  erant.  Occisus  est 
xlv.  imperii  anno,  scelere 
gener  suii  Tarqiiiniij  su- 
perbi,  filii  ejus  regis  cni 
ipse  succcsseral ;  8c  filix 
sux  quam  Tarquinius  ha- 
bebat  uxorem. 

^  8.      Lucius      Tarqui- 
nius superbus,  septimus 
atque     uliimus     regum, 
Volscos    (qux    gens    ad 
Campaniam  euntibusnon 
longe  ab  urbe  est)  vicit ; 
Gabioscivilatem,  &  Sues- 
sam   Pomesiam  subegit ; 
cum  Thuscis  pacem  fecit ; 
£c  templum  Jovi  in  Capi- 
tolioxdificavit.  Postea  Ar- 
deamoppugnans,  in  octa- 
vo   decimo   milliario   ab 
urbc   positam  civitatcm, 
imperium  perdidit.  Nam 
cum  filius  ejus,  ipse  Tar- 
quinius junior,  nobilissimi 
CoUatini  uxorem  stupras- 
set,  eaquede  injuria  mar- 
ito  8c  patri&amicisquesta 
fuisset,  in  omnium  con- 
spectuseoccidit;  propter 
quam  causam  Biutus par- 
ens &  ipse  Collatinus  pop- 
ulum  concilavit,  &  Tar- 
quinio  ademit  imperium. 
Mox    exercitus    quoque 
cum,    qui   civitatem  Ar- 
deam  cum  ipso  rege  op- 
pugnabat,  reliquit,   veni- 
ensque    ad  urbem   rex, 


brought  undtr  this  Census^ 
Rome  had  eighty -Jour  thousand 
heads  of  Roman  citizens^  ivith 
those  that  were  in  the  vountrij. 
He  was  slain  in  the  forty -Jijth 
year  of  his  reign^  by  the  xnU 
lainy  of  his  son-in-laiu,  Tar- 
qtdn  the  firoud^  the  son  of  that 
king  ivhom  he  had  succeeded^ 
and  of  his  oivn  daughter,  ivhom 
Tarquin  had  to  nvife, 

8.    Lucius    Tarquinius    the 
proud ^   the  seventh  ajid  last  of 
the  kingM,  conquered  the   Vol- 
scians  (which  nation  is  not  far 
from  the  city  as  you  go  to  Cam^ 
pania)  he  reduced  the  city  Ga* 
bii  and  Suessa  Pometia  ;  made 
a  peace  with  the  Thuscans^^nd 
built  a  tern  file  to  Jupiter  in  the 
Capitol,  Afterwards  as  he  was 
attacking  Ardea^  a  city  situated 
at  the  distance  of  1 8  miles  from 
the  city  Rome  he  lost  his  king, 
dom.  For  when  his  son  Tarquin 
the  younger  had  ravished  the 
wife  of  a  very  noble  person, 
Collatinusy  and  she  had  com» 
plained  of  the  injury  to  her 
husba?id  and  father  and  friends^ 
she  killed  herself  in  the  sight  of 
them    all;    for   which    reason 
Brutus  her  father  and  Colla^ 
tinus  raised  the  people^  and  took 
the  kingdom  from  Tarquin,  PrC' 
sently  his  army  too ^  who  ivere  at- 
tacking   the  city    Ardea    with 
the  king,    deserted   him  ;  and 
the  king  upon  coming  to  the  ci- 
ty   Rome,  was  excluded,  the 
gates  being  shut  against  him. 
And  after  he  had  reig?ied  25 


iiortisclausis,exclususest. 
Cumque  impeiassct  an- 
J103  viginli  quinque,  cum 
uxore  8c  liberis  suisfugit. 
ItaRomxitgnaiumesi  per 
septeni  rcges  annis  du- 
cenlis  quadraginta  iribus, 
cum  ad  hue  Roma,  ubi  plu- 
limuni  vix usque  ad  quin- 
tum  ilecimum  milliaiium 
possideret. 

9.  Hinc  consules  coepe- 
re  pro  uno  rege  duo  hac 
causa  creari ;  ut  si  unus 
inalus  esse  voluisset,  alter 
eum,  habcns  poteslatem 
similem,  coerceret.  Et 
placuit,  ne  imperium  lon- 
gius,  quam  annum  habe- 
Tent,ne  per  diuturnitatem 
potcsiatis  insoleniiores 
redderentur,  sed  civiles 
semper  essent,  qui  se  post 
annum  scirent  futures  es- 
se privatos ;  fuerunt  igitur 
anno  primo,expulsis  regi- 
bus,  Consules  Lucius  Ju- 
nius Brutus,  qui  maxime 
egerat,  ut  Tarquinius  pel- 
leretur,  £c  Tarquinius 
Co]latinus,maritus  Lucre- 
tix.  Sed  Tarquinio  Colla- 
tino  statim  sublata  digni- 
tasest :  placuerat  enim,  ne 
quisquam  in  urbe  mane- 
ret,  qui  Tarquinius  voca- 
relur.  Qui  accepto  omni 
pairimonio  suo,  ex  urbe 
migravit,  Sc  loco  ipsius 
factus  est  Valerius  Pub- 
licola  consul.  Commovit 
tamen  beilum  urbi  Romx 


years,  he  was  banished  with  his 
wife  and  children.  Thus  king- 
ly goveryimcntobtainedat  Rome 
Jor  the  time  of  seven  kings^ 
and  two  hundred  and  forty" 
three  years,  whilst  Rome  as 
yet,  where  it  had  most,  hardly 
possessed  a  territory  extend- 
ing as  far  as  the  1 5th  mile* 


9.  Upon  this,  two  Consuls 
began  to  be  made  instead  of  one 
King  for  this  reaso?! ;  that  i/ 
one  had  a  mind  to  be  wicked, 
the  other  having  the  like  au- 
thoricy,might  restrain  him.  And 
it  was  thought  fit,  they  should 
hold  their  power  no  longer  than 
Jor  a  year,  lest  they  should 
be  rendered  insolent  by  the  long 
continuance  of  their  authority, 
but  should  be  always  moderate, 
who  knew  that  they  should  be 
private  persons  ajter  a  year. 
Wherefore  in  the  first  year,  dX" 
itr  theTurquins  vtQYQ  banished, 
L,  Junius  Brutus,  who  had 
particularly  exerted  himself, 
that  Tarquin  might  be  banished, 
and  Tarquinius  Collatinus,  the 
husband  of  JLucretia,  were 
made  Consuls,  But  this  dig. 
7iity  was  taken  immediately 
from  Tarquinius  Collatinus» 
For  it  was  thought  ft  that  no 
one  should  continue  in  the  city, 
that  was  called  Tarqidn,  V/ho 
receiving  his  whole  estate  re- 
moved  out  of  the  city,  and  Fc- 
lerius  Publicola  was  made  Con» 
sul  in  his  room^  Yet  King  TaV" 
B2 


iiinjEnaftaaK 


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I 


rex  Tarquinius,  qui  fue- 
rat  expulsus,  &  collectis 
mullis  gentibus,  utin  reg- 
num  posset  restitui  dimi- 
cavit. 

10.    In  prima    pugna 
Brutus  &  Aruns  I'arqui- 
niifiiius  invicem  se  occi- 
derunt.    Romani    tamen 
ex  ea  pugna  victores  re- 
cessenint.    Brutum  Ro- 
manx  matronai   defenso- 
rem  pudicitisc  sux,  quasi 
communem  patrem,  per 
annum  luxerunt.     Vale- 
rius  Publicola    Spurium 
Lucretium   Tricipitinum 
collegam   sibi   fecit,  Lu- 
cre! ix  patrem :  quo  mor- 
bo  moriiio,  iterum  Hora- 
•  tium  Pulvillum  collegam 
sibi  sumpsit.  Ita  primus 
annus  quinque   Consules 
habuit:  cum  Tarquinius 
Collatinus  urbe  cessisset 
propter  nomen,    Brutus 
prsclio  periisset,  Spurius 
Lucretius  morbomortuus 
esset. 

11»  Secundo  quoque 
anno,  iterum  Tarquinius 
ut  reciperetur  in  regnum 
bellum  Romanis  intulit, 
auxilium  ei  ferentePorse- 
na  Thusci»  rege,  8c  Ro- 
mam  pene  cepit.  Verum 
turn  quoque  victus    est. 


giiin^  ivho  had  been  banished, 
raised  a  ivar  against  thr;  city 
Rotne^  and  having  got  together 
many  nations^  f^^ght  to  be  rt'- 
stored  to  his  kingdom, 

10.  In  the  first  battle,  Bru^ 
tus  and  Aruns^  the  son  of  Tar- 
quin.  killed  one  another,     *  Yet 
the  Romans  came  off frojn  that 
battle  victorious.      The  Roman 
matrons  mourned  for    Brutus 
the  defender  of  their  honor^  as 
a  common  father^  for  a  year. 
Valerius  Publicola  made  S/iu* 
rius    Lucretius      Irici/iitinusy 
the  father  of  Lucre  tia  his  coU 
league.      Who  dying  a  natural 
deaths  he  again  took  for  his  col^ 
league     Horatius      Pulvilhis, 
Thus   the  first   year  had  five 
Consuls  ;  since  Tarquinius  Col* 
latinus  qidtted  the  city,  because 
of  his  name  :  Brutus  fell  in  bat- 
tle, and  Spurius  Lucre  tint  died 
of  a  distetnfier. 


11,7«  the  second  year  tooy 
Tarquinius  again  made  war 
upon  the  Romans,  in  order  to 
be  received  into  his  kingdom  ; 
Porsena  the  King  of  Thuscia 
carrying  him  assista?icey  and 
was  near  taking  Rome,  But 
then  too,  f  he  ivas  vanquished. 


*  Livy  and  Plutarch  make  it  but  a  sort  of  drawn  battle,  yet  tell  an 
Jdle  story,  from  whence  the  Romans  took  occasion  to  claim  the  victory, 
let  ^^?f  """'  properly  vanquished,  but  obliged  to  retire,  because 
Ins  fnend  Porsena  thought  fit  to  make  a  peace  with  the  Romans,  which 
♦iieif  hiitwiaos  say  be  was  fiishteaed  into  bjr  a  desperate  attempt  of 


^ 


i 


h 


Tertio  anno  post  regts 
exactos,  Tarquinius  cum 
suscipi  non  posset  in  reg- 
num, neque  ei  Porsena, 
qui  pacem  cum  Romanis 
fecerat,  auxilium  prxsta- 
ret.  I'u  senium  se  con- 
lulit,  qu»  civitas  non  lon- 
ge  ab  urbe  est :  aique  ibi 
per  quatuordecim  annos 
privatus  cum  uxore  pra:- 
senuit.  Quarto  anno  post 
reges  exactos,  cum  Subi- 
ni  Romanis  bellum  inlu- 
lissent  victi  sunt ;  8c  de  his 
est  triumphatum.  Quin- 
to  anno  Lucius  Valerius 
ille  Bruti  collega,  &  quar- 
lum  Consul,  fatalitermor- 
tuu»  est  adeo  pauper,  ut 
collatis  a  populo  nummis, 
sumptum  habuerit  sepul- 
tur^e,  quern  matron»,  si- 
cut  Brutum»  annum  lux- 
erunt. 


12.  Nono  anno  post  re- 
ges exactos,  cum  gener 
Tarquinii,  ad  injuriam 
soceri,  vindicandam  in- 
gentem  collegisset  exer- 
citum,  nova  Romsc  dig- 
nitas  est  creata,  qua  Dic- 
tatura  appellatur,  major 
quamConsulatus.  Eodem 


The. third  year  cfter  the  roijal 
Jumily  were  driven  from 
Rome,  nvhen  Tarquin  could 
not  be  received  into  his  kirtg^ 
dom,  nor  did  Por''<(  no,  tvh'j  hud 
made  a  fieace  ivith  :  he  Romans, 
any  longer  give  him  assist- 
ance^ he  withdrew  himself  to 
*  Tusculum  which  town  is  not 
far  from  the  city  Rome, 
and  there  lived  a  private  per- 
son for  fourteen  years  with  his 
wife  to  be  very  old.  In  the 
fourth  year  after  the  royal  J  ami- 
ly  were  banished,  the  Sabines 
making  war  vpon  the  Romatis, 
were  conquered,  and  the  Ro- 
mans, triumphed  over  them.  In 
the fjihyear  aferjL.  Valerius, 
that  colleague  of  Brutus,  and  a 
Jourth  timeconsuly diedaiiatural 
death,  so  poor,  that  he  had  the 
charges  of  his  funeral  borne 
with  money  contributed  by  the 
people,  whom  the  matrons 
mourned  for  a  year,  as  they  had 
done  for  Brutus» 

12.  In  the  ninth  year  after 
the  batiishing  of  the  royal 
family,  the  son-in-law  of  Tar- 
quin having  raised  a  huge  ar^ 
my  to  revenge  the  injury  done 
his  father-in-law,  a  7iew  office 
was  erected  at  Rome,  which  ia 
called  the  f  Dicta  tor  ship  y  great- 
er than  the  Consulate •     in  the 


Mucius  Scaevola  to  kill  him,  and  a  politic  pretence  of  his  to  the  king, 
that  300  Romans  had  sworn  to  endeavour  bis  destruction  iu  the  same 
bold  manner. 

*  Livy  says  to  Cumae  in  Campania. 

f  This  was  at  first  an  absolute  power,  but  coofined  within  the  space 
ti  six  «iQntliS,  See  iRo5i«V&'  ^nti^ui(i€Sf  gr  Pmsgus'  Lexicon, 


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anno  ctiammagisterequi- 
liim  fact  us  est,  qui   Dic- 
tatori  obsccjueretur,    Ne- 
que  quid'juam     similius, 
potest  dici,  quam   Dicta- 
tura  antiqua,   huic  impe- 
rii poteslati,  qunni  nunc 
tranquilitus  vesira  hubtt, 
maximc  cum    Augustus 
quoq ;     Octavianus,     de 
quoposteadicemus,  8c  an- 
te eum,  Caius  Czesav,  sub 
Dictatura;  nomine  atque 
honore  regnaverint.  Dic- 
tator autem   Romse    pri- 
mus fuit  Lartius :  Mngis- 
terequitum  primus,  Spu- 
rius  Cassius. 

13.  Sexto  decimo  anno 
post  reges  exactos,  sedi- 
tionem  populus  Roma  fe- 
cit, tanquam  a  Senatu 
atq ;  Consulibus  premere- 
tur.  Turn  &  ipse  sibi 
Tribunos  plebis,  quasi 
proprios  judices  &  defen- 
sorcs  creavit,  per  quos 
contra  Senatum  &  Con- 
sules  tutus  esse  posset. 

14.  Sequent!  anno  Vol- 
sci  contra  Romanos  bel- 
ium  reparave  runt :  &  victi 
acie,  etiam  Coriolos,  civi- 
tatem  quamhabebantop- 
timam,  perdiderunt. 


same  ijear  likewise  a  Maater  cj 

Horse    ivas  made    to  obey    the 

Dictator,     J\''or  can  any  thing 

be  named  more  like  to  the  Imjie- 

rial  authority^  ivhich  novj  your 

tranquility  has^than  the  oldDic^ 

tatorshi/i^    esjiecially  since  Au^ 

Justus  Octavianus  too,  of  whom 

we  slmll  sficak  hireafier,  ajid 

bi fore  him  Caius  Casar,  reigned 

under  the  name  and  honor  of  the 

Dictatorship.     The  first  Die- 

tator  at  Rome  was  Lartius,  and 

S/mrius  Cassius  the  first  Mas^ 

ter  of  the  Horse, 


13.  //2  the  sixteenth  year  af- 
ter the  banishment  of  the  royal 
family,  the  people  7nade  a  mu- 
tiny at  Rome,  as  if  they  were 
oppressed  by  the  Senate  and 
Consuls,  Then  too  they  made  to 
themselves  *  Tribunes  of  the 
Commons,  as  their  own  proper 
judges  and  defenders  by  whom 
they  might  be  secured  against 
the  Senate  and  Consuls. 

14.  In  the  following  year, 
the  Volsci  renewed  the  war  a- 
gainst  the  Romans  ;  and  being 
defeated  in  thefitldy  lost  like- 
wise  Corioli,  the  best  city  which 
they  had. 


*  These  were  at  first  but  two,  but  their  riUii:ber  quickly  increased  to 
ten.  And  they  answered  the  design  of  thei»-  insiitution  etrectually 
and  contributed  not  a  little  to  the  future  rise  and  powthof  the  Roman 
state,  by  procuring  at  last  to  the  Commons  adniisjiion  to  all  the  great 
offices  of  the  government ;  after  which  the  Romans  bore  down  all  op- 
position, till  they  made  themselves  in  a  great  measine  masters  cf  the 
world.  For  a  more  particular  accotiot  o/ their  office  see  Rosijius,  or 
Pitiscus. 


15  Octavo  decimo  an-  15.  In  the  \m  year  ajter 
no  postquum  reges  ejecti  the  royal  Jamily  were  turned 
erant,  expv.lsns  ex  urbe,  out,  Q,  Marcius,  a  ^general  cf 
Quintius  Ma.cius,  dux  the  Romans,  who  had  taken  Co- 
Romanorum,  qui  Corio-  rioli.  a  city  of  the  Volsci,  being 
los  ceperat,  Volscorum  Vanished  the  city,  went  over  to 
civitalem,  ad  ipsos  Vols-  the  Felsciinurage.and received 
cos  contcndit  iratus,  &  assistance  against  the  Romans. 
auxilia  contra  Romanos  He  often  conc^ueredthe  Romans. 
accepit.  Romanos  ssepe  ^^e  came  within  five  miles  of  the 
vicit :  usque  ad  quintum  city,  designing  too^  to  attack  the 
milliarium  urbis  accessit,  place  of  his  nativity,  rejecting 
oppui^naturus  etiam  pa-  t^c  deputies,  that  begged fieacc 
triam  suam,  legatis,  qui  ivom  h\m,  mkss  his  mother 
pacem  petebant,  repudi-  Veturia,  and  Im  wife  Voumma 
atis,  nisi  ad  eum  mater  had  come  to  him  from  the  city, 
Veturia,  &  uxor  Volumnia  by  wh9se  weepmg  and  impor- 
ex  urbe  venissent ;  qua-  tunity  being  prevailed  upon,  he 
rum  fletu  &  deprecatione  c?rfw  qfi^  his  army.  And  this 
superatus  removit  exer-  w^-^  the  second  from  Tarqum, 
citum  :  atque  hie  sccun-  w/io  was  general  of  an  army 
dus  post  Tarquiniumfuit,  against  his  own  country. 
qui  dux  contra  patriam 

suam  esset.  ^  ^-  ^^^n  Caso  Fabms  and 

16.  Cxsone  Fabio  &  Titus  Virginius  were  Consuls, 
Tito  Virginio  Consulibus,  300  noblemen,  who  were  of  the 
trecenti  nobiles  homines,  Fabian  family,  undertook  alone 
qui  ex  Fabia  familia  e-  the  war  against  the  Vejentes, 
rant,  contra  Vejentes  bel-  promising  the  Senate  and  people 
lum  soli  su^ceperunt,  pro-  to  manage  that  whole  dispute  by 
mittentes  Senatui  &  po-  themselves.  Wherefore  going 
pulo  per  se  omne  certa-  accordingly,  c^// of  them  «o/^/^ 
men  implendum.  Ita-  men  and  ivho  each  of  them  ought 
que  profecti  omnes  no-  to  have  been  leaders  cf  great 
biles,  8c  qui  singuli  mag-  armies,  they  fell  in  battle.  But 
norum  exercituum  duces  ^one  was  lejt  of  so  great  a  Ja- 
*  Marcius  was  not  General,  but  an  inferior  officer  only  in  the  army, 
to  whose  valor  the  taking  of  Corioli  was  principally  owmg,  from 
whence  he  had  the  name  of  Coriohums. 

t  This  circumstance  is  to  be  sure  false.  A  family  that  could  fur- 
nish  300  fighting  men  had  no  doubt  many  male  chiMrcn.  I  wonder  so 
improbable  a  thing  could  i)ass  upon  such  au  author  as  Livy,  who,  tor 
the  talent  of  writing  history,  was  at  least  equal,  if  not  superior,  to 
any  of  the  ancients,  either  Greeks  or  Romans. 


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esse  deherent,  in  prrclio  ^nily,  who  by  reason  of  his  child- 
concideiunt.  Unusomni-  ish  age  could  not  be  carried  to 
no  superfuit  ex  tanta  fa-  the  battle.  After  this  the 
milia,  qui  propter  xtatem  Census  was  again  take?i  in  the 
puenlem  duci  non  potue-  city,  and  there  were  found  to 
rat  ad  pugnam.  Post  haec  be  a  hundred  and  nineteenthou- 
Census  in  urbe  habitus  sandfreemen. 
est,  k  inventa"  sunt  civi- 

um  capitum  cxix.  millia.         17.  In  the  following  year,  the 
^     17.  Sequenti  anno,  cum     Roman  army  being  besieged  in 
m  Algido  monte,  ab  urbe    mount     Algidum,      at     about 
duodecimo  ferme  millia-    the  tivelfth  mile  from  the  city. 
no,    Romanus    obsidere-    X.    Quint ius   Cincinnatua  was 
tur     exercitus,       Lucius    made  Dictator,  who  /loasessing 
QumtmsCincinnatusDic-    a  fi  ice  e  of  land  of  four  *jugeray 
tatorestfactus :  qui  agrum    tilled  it  with  his  own  hands.  He 
quatuor   jugerum   possi-    ^cingfoundat  work  and  ploughs 
dens,  manibus  buis  cole-    tfig,  wiping  q^ the  sweat,  took 
bat.  Is,cuminopere&a-     the    Toga  Pratexta,  and  cut. 
rans  esset  mventus,   su-    ting  off  the  enemy,  delivered 
dore  deterso,  Togam  Pra-    the  army. 
tcxlamaccepit:    &,  cassis         18.  In  the  year  SQO,  from 
hostibus,  hberavit  exerci-    the  building   of  the   city,  the 
^""**  Consular  governmemt    ceased, 

18.  Anno  ccc.  &  altero  and  instead  of  two  Consuls,  ten 
aburbecondita,imperium  t  officers  were  made,  who  had 
Consulare  cessavit,  &  pro  the  supreme  power,  beingihert- 
duobus  Consulibus  decern  fore  named  the  Decemviri.  But 
tacii  sunt,  qui  summam  after  they  had  behaved  well  the 
potestatem  habeient,  De-  first  year,  in  the  second,  one  of 
ccmviri  nominati.  Scd  them,  Appius  Claudius,  who  had 
cum  primo  anno  bene  e-  a  design  to  debauch  a  young 
gissent,  secundo,  unus  ex  woman,  daughter  of  one  Virgin 
lis  Appius  Claudius,  Virgi-    nius,  who  served  in  an  \ho7iour- 

*  Ju:ierHni  is  a  piece  of  land  240  feet  long  and  120  broad,  that  is 
ueariipon  half  our  acre.  ' 

t  The  design  of  their  insitution  was  to  compile  a  body  of  laws  for 
the  ilomans^  who  then  liad  either  none  at  all,  or  very  few      The  fa 
«lo^us  twelve  tables  were  the  work  of  these  same  Decemviri*. 

+  Hon  stis  stipendiis  is  properly  or  verbally  renderefl  for  handsome 
honorable  pay.     Siipend.um  sijfuiaes  in  general  wages,  but  most  com- 
monly soldiers'  pay,  and  sometuncs  a  year's  },ay.     It  will  not  be  im- 
proper to  observe  here,  that  the  Romau  soldiers  at  that  time  served 


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niicujusdam,  qui  honestis 
jam  ttipendiis  contra  l^ati- 
nos  in  monte  Algido  mili- 
tabat,  filiamvirt^iiiemcor- 
rumpere  voluil :  quam  pa- 
ter occidit,  ne  siuprum  a 
Decemviro  susiineret : 
k  regressus  ad  milites, 
movit  tumultum.  Sub- 
lala  est  Decemviris  po- 
testas,  ipsique  damnati 
sunt 

19.  Anno  trecentesimo 
decimoqtiinloabiirbecon- 
dita,  b  idenates  contra  Ro- 
manostebeiluverunt.  Aiix- 
iiium  prxstdbant  liis  Ve- 
jentes  et  rex  Vejentium 
Tolumnius.  q»  ae  ambx  ci- 
vitatco  tarn  vicinx  urbisunt 
ut  FidciKc    vii.   Vejentes 
xviii.nnilurioiiljsint.Con- 
junxerunt  se   his  &  Vol- 
sci  ;  scd  M.  ^Emilio  Dic- 
tatore,  Lucio  Quiniiu  Ci ii- 
ciufiato  Magisiroequiium 
victi,    ctiaui   regeni   per- 
didci  unt :    Fid^  t.te  captae 
&  excisae.    Post  xx.  inde 
aniios,  V'ejentani  tebclla- 
ver'int.     Dictator  contia 
i(>sos  missus  tsL   Furius 
Camilhis,     qui    prinium 
COS  \icit  acie  ;  mox  ciiam 
civitatem  diu  obbidcub  ce- 
pit,    amiquissimam,  Ita- 


able  post  against  the  Latins,  iifj, 
on  moufit  Algidum,  whom  her 
father  slew^  that  ahe  might  not 
suffer  a  ravishment  from  the 
Decemvir,  and  returning  to  fhc 
solditrs.  raised amutiny.  Upon 
wiiich  (heir  authority  was  taken 
from  the  Decemviri,  and  they 
condemned. 


19.    In  the  3  \  5th  year  from 
the  building    the  city,  tlic  Fi. 
denatians    rebelled  against  the 
Romans,     The    Vejeiites  gave 
them  assiftstance,  and  the  King 
of  the    Vejentes,     Tolumnius: 
both  which  states  are  so  near 
the  city  Rome,  that  Fidenx  is 
but  distant  seven,  and  the  ^^Fc' 
jentes  eighteen  miles.   The  Vol- 
set  likewi.^e  joined  themselves  to 
them.    But  being  conquered  by 
M.  Mmilius  the  Dictator,  and 
L..  Quint  ius  Cincinnatds,  Alas- 
ter  of  the  Horse,  they  likewise 
lost  their  king,  Fidcms  was  ta. 
ken  and  destroyed.  Twenty  year» 
after  the  Vejentani  rebelled  Fu- 
rius Camillus  was  sent  Dictator 
against  thvm,whofirst  conquered 
them   in  battle,  and  by  and  by 
besieging  their  city,  took  it,  the 
most  ancient  and  the  richest  in 
Italy.    After  it  he  took  Falls- 


the  commonwealth  in  the  wars  at  their  own  evpense.  It  was  some 
years  after,  as  Livy  informs  us,  th;it  the  decree  of  the  Senate  was  made, 
I'tjitipend/'ttn  miles  de  f)i!ji/co  <icr/i>eiei  <jtnm  ante  id  tempus,  de  sua 
qii/si/'if^  functus,  co  ni'ifitre  rssft.  L.  A.  Can.  59. 

*  I  would  rather  choose  to  read  in  this  place  Veii,  which  was  the. 
nain«  of  the  city  of  the  Vejentes,  and  about  that  distaace  from  Rome, 


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liseque  ditissimam.    Post  c/,  a  no  less  noble  ciiy.     But 

eamcepiiSc  Falibcos,  non  a  popidar  odium  was  raised  a* 

minus  nobilemcivitatcm.  gainst  him^  as  if  he  had  divide 

Sed  commota  est  ei  invi-  ed  the  plunder   imfairhjy    and 

dia,  quasi  przedam    male  he  was  condemned  for  that  rea- 

divisisset,     damnatusque  son,  and  banished  the  citij, 
ob  eam  causam,  £c  expul- 
sus  civitate  est» 

QQ,    Statim    Gain    Se-  QO.  Immediately  the  *  Gal- 

ncnes,      ad  uibem  vene-  //  Senones  came  to  the  city^  and 

runt,   8c  victos  Romanos  pursuing    the    Romona    after 

xi.  milliario  ab  urbe  Ro-  they    had   deftated    them     1 1 

ma,  apud  flumen  AUiam  miles  from  the  city    Kome^  at 

sequutii  ctiam  uibem  oc-  the  river  Jllia^    they  likewise 

cupavcrunt ;  nequedefen-  took  the  city*     JS/cr  could  any 

di  quidquam  nisi  Capilo-  thing  be  defended  but  the  Capi* 

Jium    potiiit  :    quod  cum  tol  :  which  after  they  had  be- 

diu    obsedissent,   8c    jam  sieged  a  long  time^  and  the  Ro^ 

Romani  fame  laborarent,  mans  were  now  pinched  by  fa- 

a   Camillo,  qui   in  vicina  mine^   Camillus,   who  was    in 

civitate  exsulabat,  Gallis  banishment    in    a   neighboring 

superventum  est,  gravis-  cky^  came  upon  the  Gauls,  and 

simeque  victi  sunt  ;    pes-  thtyivereoverthrownwithgreat 

tea  tamen,  accepto  etiam  loss  ;  ^hurjever  afterwards j  re- 

auro,   ne  Capitolium  ob-  ceiving  a   good  sum   of  gold^ 

siderent,  recesserunt :  sed  nfA  to  besiege  the  Capitol^  they 

sequulus    eos     Camillus  went  away:    but  Camillus  foU 

ita  cecidit,  ut   8c  aurum,  lowirigthein^soroutedthemytliat 

quod  his  datum  fuerat,  Sc  he  both  recovered  thegoldwhich 

omnia,      qua:      ceperant,  had  been  given  them,  and  all  the 

militaria    signa,    revoca-  military    standards    they    had 

ret.     Ita   tertium  trium-  taken.  So  he  entered  the  city  a 

phans    urbem    ingressus  third  time  in  triumph,  andwas 

est   Sc   appellatus    secun-  called  a  second  Romulus,  as  if  he 

dus    Romulus,     quasi   et  likewise  was  the  builder  of  the 

ipse  patriae  conditor.  city, 

*  These  Galli  Senones  came  from  about  that  part  of  Franco,  which 
is  now  eatled  C  hampagne.  This  was  the  greatest  blow  the  Romans 
ever  received,  and  it  struck  such  a  terror  into  them,  that  they  were 
more  afiaid  of  the  Gauls,  than  any  other  nation,  till  they  were  intirely 
suMiieJ  by  Julius  Ca3sar.  7heday  on  which  the  battle  of  Allia  was 
fought  was  ever  after  lookeJ  u}^on  as  unlucky,  upon  which  it  was  not 
proper  to  begin  any  thing  .  f  importance. 

f  It  is  not  at  all  likely  that  tiiey  wmld  contiiiue  the  siege,  and  raise 


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BREVIARIUM 


LIBER  II. 

m.litares,  Consular!  pote-  t  Tr^l'  "vf'';.""*"- 
«^'••e.  Mine  jam  ccepifRo-  >«,  J  ,••  "  ,^1"  /"""^'" 
inana  res  cresccre    V^m    /,•        '  ^'^^'^''^^^c-.     1^ ram  this 

'■uni   civitatem,    nu«   ner    JIT  ff  «^"  '"■''^'«  that  year 

It  only  upon  the  payment  of  a  -..g^t  s-,m«    f      •  i      c 

^^'^ve  ely  lu  at  by  Camillus.     Other  Ith'^  ^"^'^^'  •'^^T  ^'^^>^  ^^^^  ^^ee« 

H'se  and  tell  us  that  VMm\U^sr^^^^^^^ 

:;-^hin,  Oil;  .,Hl  quite  spoS^n'^^^^Set""";^  V'''^'  ''"  ^"^^'  "-^^ 
^I^ejn  than  uluU  fhoy  v.  Ac  about:  k^i^!;';  ^^'  ^^'^c].„g  other  work  fbi' 

^^^^^^:^^^  ^--  wastake. 

H-ho  a.t  ias.  carried  their  poii  -  «,' n     •?  -^^  k  "^"^  ^^"  '^'^  ^'«"-^"'ate, 
uere  quite  laid  aside.        ^         '     ^^"  '' ^"^^  ^^^«^  ^^il'tary  Tribunes 

f  This  is  likewise  a  mistake:  The  warl.,fpH  toy 
''^«ds  by  the  Kom«.s,  ^d  rZT^%  toe  SuSr*'""'' '"  '^  """' 


tJe^aKWhMiStwiuaiitijj-'--'-^   ■■iaiaa.M»:;ijUrf.^^.tj^)^^y^jja.^, 


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LIBER  ir. 


2.  Titus  etiam  Quintius 
Cincinnatus,  Prxnestinos, 
qui  usque  ad  urbis  Romx 
portas  bcllo  venerant,  per- 
sequutus,  ad  flumen  Alli- 
am  vicit,  etcivilates,  qua 
subipsisagebant,  Roman- 
is  adjunxit ;  ipsum  Prx- 
iieste  aggressus,  in  dediti- 
onem  accepit;  quae  omnia 
ab  CO  gesta  sunt  viginti 
diebus  triumphusque  ipsi 
decretus. 


3.  Verum  dignitas  Tri- 
bunorum  Militarium  non 
diu  persevei  avit;  nam  post 
aliquantum  nullos  placuit 
fieri ;  et  quadriennium  ita 
in  urbe  fluxit,  ut  potest- 
ates  ibi  majores  non  as- 
sent. Resunipserunt  tam- 
en  Tribuni  Militares  Con- 
sular! potestate  iterum 
dignitatem,  et  triennio 
persevsravcrunt.  Rursus 
Consules  facti. 

4,  Lucio  Genucio  et 
Quinto  Servilio  Consuli- 
bus,   mortuus  est  Camil- 


and  *  had  three  triumfihs  to^ 
get  her. 

2.  T,  Quintius  Cincinnatin 
likewise  pursuing  the  t  Pri^- 
nestinif  who  had  come  in  a  hos- 
tile  manner  up  to  the  gates  of 
the  city  Rome^  conquered  them 
at  the  river  j^llia,  and  added 
the  cities,  which  were  under 
them,  to  the  Romans,  and  at- 
tacking Proeneste  itself,  took  it 
by  surrender  ;  all  which  thing.i 
were  done  by  him  in  twenty 
days,  and  a  Criwnfih  was  voted 
him, 

3.  But  the  office  of  military 
Tribunes  did  not  continue  long  ; 
for  after  some  time  it  was 
thought  fit  no  more  should  b^s 
made  ^  and  \four  years  so 
past  in  the  city,  that  there  were 
none  of  the  greater  magistratesy 
Consuls  or  Military  Tri- 
bunes in  it.  Yet  the  Military 
Tribunes  with  Consular  power 
at  last  resumed  the  govern •> 
ment,  and  continued  for  thre*: 
years,  ||  Then  again  ConsuU 
Were  made. 

4.  Z/.  Genucius  and  Quin- 
tus  Servilius  being  Consuls, 
Camillas  died  ;    the  second  hQ» 


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*  He  had  but  one  triumph  for  these  three  wars  so  successirely 
finished. 

t  Prancste  was  a  city  of  Latiuin,  at  the  distance  of  about  20  milc6 
to  the  eastvvaixl. 

X  Our  author  should  have  said  five  years,  as  apjiears  from  Li\y. 

II  Not  immediately,  for  a  whole  year  passed  without  either  Consuls 
or  military  Tribunes,  occasioued  by  a  violent  contest  betwixt  the  No- 
bles and  commons,  the  former  strugglmg  for  a  Consular  Election,  the 
latter  for  that  of  the  Military  Tribunes,  for  which  office  they  wer; 
^LualUied  t*  be  caifiUdates,  for  the  «ther  not. 


lus :    honor  ei   secundus 
post  Romuhim  delalus  est. 
5.  Titus  Quintius  Dict- 
ator adversus  Gallos,  qui 
in  Italiam  venerant,  mis- 
sus est.  Hi  ab  urbe  quarto 
milliario   trans  Anienem 
fluvium  consederant.  No- 
bilissimus  de  Senatoribus 
Titus  Manlius  provocan- 
tem  Galium  ad  singulare 
certamen  congressus  oc- 
cidit ;    et    sublato  torque 
aureo,  colloq  ;   suo  impo- 
sito,   in  perpetuum  Tor- 
quati  sibi  et  posteris  cog- 
nomen accepit.    Galli  fu- 
gati  sunt ;  mox  per  Caium 
Sulpicium  Dictatorem  e- 
tiam  victi.  Non  multopost 
a  Caio  MarcioThusci  victi 
sunt,  vii.  millia  captivo- 
rum  ex  his  in  triumphum 
ducti, 

6.  Census  iterum  hab- 
itusest.  EtcumLalini,qui 
a  Romanis  subacli  erant, 
milites   prxslare   nollent, 
ex  Romanis  tantum  tiro- 
nes  lecti  sunt,  factseque  le- 
giones  decern,  qui  modus 
sexaginta  vel  amplius  ar- 
matoium  milliaeflkiebat: 
parvis  adhuc  Romanis  re- 
bus tanta  tamen  in  re  mili- 
tari  virtus  erat.  Qux,  cum 
profecias  essent  adversus 
Gallos,  duce  Lucio  Furio 
Camiilo,  quidam  ex  Gallis 


Tior   after  Romulus  vas  /laid 
to  him. 

5    T.   QuiJitius     was    seiit 
Dictator     against    the    Gauls, 
who     had    come     into     Italy, 
These  had  encam/iedfour  miUs 
from  the  city,  beyond  the  River 
Jinien.     The  noblest  of  the  Se- 
nators,   T.  Manlius,    engaged 
and  slew  a  Gaul,  that  challeng- 
ed any  one  of  the  Romans  to 
a  single  duel^  and  taking  frcmi 
him  a  gold  chain,  and  putting 
it  upon  his  own  neck,  he  fore- 
ver after  got    the  surname   of 
Torquatus  for  himself  and  his 
posterity.     The     Gauls    were 
routed,  2lX\^  presently  after  con* 
quered    by    the    Dictator,    C. 
Sulpicius,    JVot  long  after  the 
Thuscans  were   conquered   by 
Cuius  Marcius,  seven  thousand 
prisoners  of  them  were  led  in 
triumph, 

6.   The   Census,  or   survey 
of  the  people,  was  again  tak- 
en.    And  tbe   Latins,  who  had 
been  subdued  by  the  Romans, 
refusing  to  furnish  their  quota 
ol  soldiers,   recruits  were  levi^ 
ed  from   amongst  the  Romans 
only,  and  ten  lt^gio7if<  completed^ 
which    numbtr    made    *  sixty 
thousand  armed  men  or  more  • 
the  Roman  state  being  as  yet 
but  small.   Such  was  their  abiiU 
ty  notwithstanding  in  military 
affairs,  who  marching  against 
the  Gauls  under  L,  Furius  Ca- 


.f l^Tvl f ''♦^  "^f^^^'u   ^''^  ^'"'  "^  ^^'^  ''«'°"  '■"  ^^'*  ^^y  consisted 
•t  4200  foot  and  300  horse. 


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iiiiumeRomanis,  quiesset 
oplinui3,provocavit.  Turn 
se  iMarcus  Vakrius,  Tri- 
buniis  Militum,    oLituIit ; 
etcum    prccessisset    ar- 
inauis,    corvus  ei    supra 
ciextrum  brachium  sedit : 
mox,  commissa  adversus 
Galium  pugna,  idemcor- 
Yus  alis  et  unguibus  Galli 
oculosveiterat,  lie  rectum 
posEet  aspicere  ;  ita  ut,  a 
Tribune  Valerio  interfec- 
tiis,  non  solum  vicloriam 
ei,  scd  etiam  notiien  de- 
merit.    Nam  postea  idem 
Corvinus  est  dictus,    ac 
propter  hoc  meritum,an- 
norum    trium  et    viginti 
Consul  est  factus. 

7.  Latini,  qui  noluerant 
xnilitcs  dare,  hoc  quoque 
a  Romanis  exigere  ccepe- 
runt,  ut  unus  Consul,  ex 
eorum,  alter  ex  Romano- 
rum  populo,  crearetur. 
Quod  cum  esset  negatum, 
bellum  contra  cos  suscep- 
tum  est,  &  ingenti  pugna 
^  superati  sunt:  ac  de'his 
perdomitis  triumphatuin 
est,  Statuw  Contulibus  ob 
mciitum  Victoria  in  Ros- 


millus  their  general^  one  cfthe 
Gauls   chalkngtd  any    one    of 
the  liomaiiti^  that  -^as  the  besi 
at   hi^    weapons.      U/ion  that^ 
M^   Valerius,  a  Tribune  of  the 
soldiers,    (offered  himself)    and 
marching  out  armed,   *  a  crow 
sat  u/iun  his  right  arm ;  pre~ 
sently  after,  rchen  the  fight  a- 
gainst  the  Gaul  begun,  the  same 
crow   struck  the    eyes   of   the 
Gaul  iviih  his  wings  and  claws, 
that  he  could  not  look  right  be- 
fore;  so   that,  being    slain  by 
the  Tribune,  he  gave  him  not 
only  the  victory,  but  a  name  too. 
For  afterivarda  the   same  man 
ivas  called   Corvinus,    and  for 
this  service  ivas  made  Consul 
at  three   and  twenty  years  of 
age. 

7.   The  Latins,  '!vho  had  re- 
fused  to  furnish   their  fjiiota  of 
men,  begun  to  demand  this  too 
of  the  Romans,  that  one  Consul 
should  be    made   from  arnongst 
their  /leo/de,  and  the  other  out 
of  the   Romans:    which  being 
denied  than,  a  ttyar  was  under- 
taken against  them,  and  they 
overthrown  in  a  great  battle  ; 
and  the  generals  triumphed  for 
the  conquest  of  them.     Statue* 
were  erected  in  the  f  Rostra  for 


*  Livy  anrl  Victor  say  l!ic  crow  sat  upon  his  helmet,  nhlch  Madam 
Oaciei  thinks  more  hkcly  to  be  true,  because  iie  waiit(  d  his  ri^ht  arm 
to  h-ht  with.  A  httle  conHderahoii  mi-ht  have  satisiied  that  learnecJ 
lady  that  her  criticism  was  needless,  the  whole  bein;;  a  very  ridicu- 
lous story.  There  is  small  reason  sure  to  think  that  Providence  slioiild 
interpose  by  a  miracle  to  dispatch  a  poor  Gaul. 

f  Rostrum,  which  properly  si,'nilics  a  bird's  bill  or  beak,  is  used  too 
iw)r  ?harp  spike.-,  fixed  in  the  pro  vs  of  their  Lon^^  Naves,  or  men  of 


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29 


ins  posita  sunt, 


8.  Jam  Romani  potentes 
esse  coeperant;  bellum  e- 
nim  in  ceJitesimo  Sc  tricesi- 
mo  fvire  milliario  ab  urbe 
apud  Samnites  gcrebatur, 
qui   medii  sunt  intei'   Pi- 
cenum,  Campaniam  Sc  A- 
puliam.    Lucius  Papii'ius 
Cursor  cum  honore  Dic- 
taloris  ad  id  bellum  pro- 
fectus  est,  qui,  cum  Ro- 
inam  rediisset,   Q.  Fabio 
Maximo   magistro   equi- 
tuni,  quern  apud  exerci- 
tum  reliquit,  piaccepit,  ne 
?>e  absente  pugnaret.  Ille, 
occasione  reperta,  felicis- 
sime  dimicavit,    8c  Sam- 
nites   delevit,    ob    quam 
lem    a   Dictatore  capitis 
damnatus  quod  se  vetante 
pugnasset,  ingenti  favore 
miliium  &  populi  libera- 
Uis  est;  tanta  Papirio  se- 
diiione  commota,  ut  pe- 
ne  ipse  interficeretur. 

9.  Postea  Samnites, 
Romanos,  TitoVeturio  & 
Spurio  Posthumio  Consu- 
libus,  ingenti  dedecore  vi- 
cerunt,  &  sub  jugum  mi- 
serunt.  Pax  tamen  a  se- 
natu  Sc  populo  solula  est, 


the  Consuls,  for  their  good  «er- 
vice  in  this  victory, 

8.   lyie  Romans  had  now  be- 
gun    to  grow  powerful^  fjr  a 
war  was  carried  on  with  the 
Samniies,  at  almost  a  hundred 
and  thirty  miles  from  the  city^ 
who  are  in  the  middle  betwixt 
Ficene^  Campania  and  Apulia, 
L,    Papirius   Cursor    went  tu 
that    war,   with   the  honor    of 
Dictator,  who  when  he  return'- 
ed  to  Rome,  charged  Q,  Fabius 
Maxitnus,  master  of  the  horscy 
whom  he  left  with  the   army^ 
that  he  should  7iot  fight  whilst 
he  was  absent.    He  finding  his 
advantage,   engaged  the   ene- 
my very  successfully,   a?id  cut 
of    the   Samnites,  for    which 
thing  being   condemned   to  die 
by  the  Dictator,  because  he  had 
fought  though  he  forbad  him, 
he  was  delivered  by   the  great 
favour  of  the  soldiers,  and  the 
people:  so  great  a  mutiny  be- 
ing   raised   against    Papirius^ 
that  he  was  well  nigh  slain, 

9.  Jfterwards  the  Samnites 
defeated  the  Romans  with  huge 
disgrace,  and  obliged  them  to 
pass  under  the  *  yoke  when  T, 
Veturius,  and  S/iurius  Post* 
humius  were  Consuls,  The 
peace  however  was  broken  by 


^ar  under  waitr  for  sinking  one  another.  The  Romans  had  with 
•some  of  these,  taken  from  the  aucients,  adorned  a  part  of  the  forum, 
which  from  tlience  received  the  name  of  Rostra. 

*  This  yoke  was  a  spear  tied  across  two  others  stuck  in  the  grotind 
iinder  which  the  Romaus  used  to  oblige  tlieir  vanquished  caj)tive 
enemies  to  pass  disarmed.  Tliey  had  the  comj.liment  returned  them 
«ometimes  as  here  by  the  Sacinites. 

C2 


so 


LUTKOPil 


LIBER  IT. 


31 


qus    cum   ipsis    propter 
necessitattrm  facta  fuerat. 
Poslca  Samnites  victi  sunt 
a  L.  Papirio  Consulc:  sep- 
tem  nilllia  eortim  sub  ju- 
g\im  nfissa»     Papirius  de 
Samnitibus    Iriumphavit. 
Eo  tempore  Applua  Clau- 
dius Censor  aquam  Clau- 
<iiam  induxit,  Sc  viam  Ap- 
piam  stravit.     Samnites, 
leparato  bello,  Quintum 
Fabium  Maximum   vice- 
runt,  tribus  millibus  Deci- 
sis :  postea  cum  pater  ejus 
I'abius   Mazimus  Ie.£!;atus 
datus  fuisset,  Sc  Samnites 
vicit,  h  plurima  torumop- 
pidacepit.  DeindePublius 
CorneliusRufinusjManius 
Curius    Dentatus    ambo 
Consulesjcontra  Samnites 
missi,    ingentibus  prxliis 
COS  confecere.    Turn  bel- 
lum  cum  Samnitibus  per 
annos  novcm   ^.  quadra- 
ginta  actum    sustulerunt, 
Jicque    ullus   hostis     fuit 
intra     ItaJiam,     virtutcm 
qui  Romanam  magis  t^^ 
tigaverit. 

10.    Interjectis  aliquot 
annis,   iterum    se  Gallo- 


the  senate  and  fieofde^  ivhich 
had  bee7i  made  with  them  f  /// 
mere  necesaity,  Jifterward^ 
the  Samnites  were  conquered 
by  the  Consul  L,  J-'apirius, 
and  seven  thousand  of  them 
made  to  /laas  under  the  yoke, 
J^a/itrius  triumjihed  over  the 
Sarmiites,  At  that  time  Ap- 
iiius  Claudius  the  Censor 
brought  the  Claudian  water 
into  the  city,  and  paved  the 
Appian  way.  The  Samnites  re^ 
7iexved  the  war^  routed  Q.  Fa~ 
bins  MajcimuSy  killing  three 
thousa?id  of  his  men.  After- 
ivardsy  when  his  father  Fabius 
Muximus  was  given  him  as  his 
lieutenant^  he  both  defeated  the 
Sainnitesy  a7ul  took  abundance 
of  their  towns.  After  that  both 
the  Consuls  Publius  Cornelius 
J^ufinusy  and  Manius  Curius 
/Jentatus  were  sent  against  the 
Samnitesy  and  slaughtered  them 
in  great  battles.  Then  they 
made  an  end  of  the  war  with 
the  Samnites,  which  had  been 
carried  07i  for  ?iine  arid  Jorty 
years;  nor  was  t-fiere  an  enemy 
within  Italy  that  morejatigued 
the  Ii$man  valor, 

1 0.  Some  years  after ,  again 
an  army  of  Gauls  joined  them- 


f  The  Samnites  liad  trepanned  the  Romans  in  a  ground  so'very  dis- 
advantageous  for  them,  by  reason  of  its  bein^  on  all  sides  enclosed  with 
hi'Aa  that  there  was  no  way  but  to  submit  to  the  mercy  of  the  Samnites 
or  perish  every  one  of  them.  The  former  they  made  choice  cf,  andsub- 
Jnitted  to  such  articles  as  the  Samnites  though  fit  to  impose  upon  them, 
which  were  all  immediately  set  aside  by  the  people  and  .senate,  asmade 
without  th«ir  authority,  and  the  war  renewedj^  but  the  Consuls  who  had 
concluded  the  peace,  were  delivered  up  to  the  Samaites,  that  tJiey 
sn'b'^^;  i-'  they  i>k^^(^  taic  th^r  leyecge  gf  tli^w» 


rum  copio:  contra  Roma- 
nos  ThuscisSamnitibusqi 
iunxcrunt:  sed  cum  Ro- 
mam  tenderentaCn.Cor- 
nelio  Dolabella  Coubulcr 
deletx  sunt. 

11.  Eodem  tempore 
Tarentinis,  qui  jam  in  ul- 
tima Italia  sunt,  bellum 
indicium  est;  quia  legu- 
tis  Romanomm  injuriam 
fccisscnt.  Hi  Pynhum 
Kpiri  regem  contra  Ro- 
manos  in  auxilium  po- 
poscerunt,  qui  ex  genere 
Achillis  originem  trahe- 
bat;  is  mox  ad  Italiam 
venit,  tumque  piimum 
Romani  cum  transmarino 
hoste  dimicaverunt.  Mis- 
sus est  contra  cum  Con- 
sul P.  Valerius  Lxvinus: 
qui,  cum  explaratores 
Pyrrhi  cepisset,  jussit  eos 
per  castra  duci,  ostendi- 
que  omnem  exercitum, 
tumque  dimitti,  utrenun- 
tiarent  Pyrrho  quacum- 
que  a  Romani  s  agerentur. 
Commissa  mox  pugna, 
cum  jam  Pyrrhus  fugerct, 
elephantorum  auxilio  vi- 
cit: quosincognitosRoma- 
niexpaverunt:scdnoxprac- 
iio  fincm  dedit.  Laivinus 
tamen  per  noclem  fugit. 
Pyrrhus  Romanos  mille 
octmgentos  cepit,  eosque 


.'^elvcs  with  the  Thuscans  and 
Sinnniccs  against  the  Roma?i&  ; 
but  as  they  were  march irig  for 
Rorne^  they  were  cut  off  by  Cn, 
Cornelius  Dolabella  the  Consul. 

1 1.   *At  the  same  time  war 

ivas  pirocluimed  agairist  the  Ta- 

rcntinesy  who  are  •\7iovj  in  the 

/urthcst  part  of  Italy^  because 

they  had  offered  an    abuse  to 

the  ambassadors  of  the  Romans. 

lliese  sent  for  Pyrrhus  king  of 

Fpire,    to    their  assistance  a- 

gaiuHt   the   Romans,  who  deri- 

ved   his    extracfion  from    the 

family    cf  Achilles,     He  came 

presently  into  Italy,  and   the?i 

J  or  the  first  t:me  did  the  Ro- 

majiS    engage    with   a  foreign 

enemy.      The    Ccusul  P.  Fait" 

rius  Lccvinus  was  se?it  against 

him  ;  who^  when  he  had  taken 

Pyrrhus^  scouts^  ordered  them 

to  be  led  through  the  campi^  and 

the    whole   army   to  be  shewn 

them^  and  then  to  bi  dismissed, 

that   they  might   tell  Pyrrhus 

what  was    doing    by   the    Ro» 

ma?is.     Soo?i  after  a  battle  be- 

ing  fought,  when  now  Pyrrhui 

was  ready  to  run  for  it,  he  Jire- 

vailed  by  the  assistance  of  his 

elepha?its,    which  the   Rctnans 

dreaded,  as  being  unknown  to 

them.     But  night  jmt  an  end 

to  the  battle,  L^vinus  however 

fled  in    the  7iight.      Pyrrhus 


*  In  the  year  of  Rome  472. 

f  What>m  has  to  do  here,  I  know  not.    TJ)C  Tarentincs  were,  )& 
th«  dajs  9f  Eutropius,  in  thesawie j[.lace  they  \yefc lu  Pyrrhus'  tiuit» 


EUTROPII 


siimmo  honore  tractavit, 
occisos  sepelivit.  Quos 
cum  advtrso  vulnere  & 
truci  vuUu,  etiam  mortu- 
os,  jaceie  vidisset,  tulisse 
ad  coelum  manus  dicitur, 
cum  hac  voce  :  se  totius 
oibis  domiiium  esse  po- 
tuissc  si  talcs  sibi  milites 
contigi^scnt. 


12.     Postea    Pyrrlius, 
junclis    sibi    Samnitibus, 
Lucanis,  Brutiisque,   Ro- 
mam  porrexit,  omnia  fer- 
ro  igneque  vastavit,  Cam- 
paniam    depopulatus  est, 
atque  ad   Praeneste  venit, 
milliario  ab  urbc  octavo- 
decimo.  Moxterroreexer- 
cilus,  qui  eum  cum  Con- 
sulc  sequebatur,  in  Cam- 
paniam  se    recipit.     Le- 
^ati  ad  Pyrrhum  de  redi- 
m^ndis  captivis  niihsi,  ab 
«o     honorifice     suscepti 
«unt,  captivos  sine  pretio 
Romam  misit.    Unum  ex 
legatis  Romanorum  Fab- 
ricium  sic  admiratus  est, 
ut  cum  eum  pauperem  es- 
•ae     cognovibset,     quartn 
parte  regni  promissa,  so- 
'licitare  voluerit  ut  ad  se 
transiret :  contemptusque 
a  Fabricio  est.  Qnare  cum 
Pyrrhus  ingenti  Romano- 
Tum  admiratione  tencre- 
tur,  legatum  misit,  quipa- 
-cem  xquis  conditionibus 
pete  ret;  prsccipuum  yicura 


took  a  thrAi^and  eight  hundrt€. 
Romans^  a?id  tTcatcd  them  ii'ith 
the  greatest  honor^  and  buried 
their  slain.  JVhom  ivhen  he 
sail)  lie  ivith  ivounds  before^ 
and  stern  looks,  even  when 
dead,  he  is  said  to  have  held 
up  hia  hands  to  heaven,  rjith 
this  saying,  that  he  could  bt 
master  of  the  ivhole  tvorld,  if 
such  soldiers  had  fallen  to  his 
share. 

1 2. jlftericards Pyrrhus  ivith 
the    SamniteSy  L.itcanian8  and 
Brutians,     marched     to-wards 
Rome,  laid  all  waste  with  fire 
and  aword,  ravaged  Cam/jania, 
andcaineto  Promcsteat  eighteen 
miles  distant  /ro/;?  the  city.  By 
and  by  he  retired  to  Ca/n/uinia, 
for  fear  of  the  armu  which  fol- 
lowed  him    with    the    Consul, 
Ambassadors     being     sent    to 
Pyrrhus  about  redeeming  their 
prisoners,  they    were   honora- 
bly   entertained  by    him ;  and 
he  sent  away  all  the  prisoner* 
without  ayiy  ransovri  to   Rome, 
He  80  admired  one  of  the   Ro- 
man   ambassadors.    Fabric  ius^ 
that    when    he    tcnderstood  he 
was  poor,  he  endeavored  to  en- 
gage him  to  come  over  to  him, 
by  promising  him  a  fourth  part 
of  his    kingdo7n,  and  was  re- 
jected by   Fabricrus,      Where- 
fore Pyrrhus  being  taken  with 
great    admiratioji   of  the  Ro- 
nians^    sent  an   ambassador  ta 
desire  peace  upon  eguai  terms, 
who  was   the  principal  person 
about  him,    Cineas  by  name ; 


LmER  II. 


Cineam  nomine;  ut  Pyr- 
rhus partem  Ilalix,  quam 
jam  armis  occupaverat, 
obtineret. 

\2»  Pax  displlcuit;    re- 
mandatumque   Pyrrho    a 
senatu  est,  eum  cum  Ro- 
manis,  nisi  ex  Italia  re- 
cessisset,   pacem    habere 
non  posse.  Tum  Romani 
)usserunt  captivos  omnes, 
({iios  Pyrrhus  reddiderat, 
i'    infames  haberi,  qui  se  ar- 
mis deftndere  potuissent; 
nee  ante  eos  ad  veterem 
statum  revcTti,  quam  sibi 
notorum  hostium  occiso- 
rum     spolia    retulisssent 
Ita  legatus  Pyrrhi  rever- 
sus  est ;  a  quo  cum  qux- 
reret    Pyrrhus,     q\ialem 
Romam  comperisset,  Ci- 
neas  dixit,  regum  se  pat- 
riam  vidisse;  scilicet  tales 
illic  esse  omnes,  qualis  u- 
nus  Pyrrhus  apud  Epirum 
&  reliquam  Grxciam  pu- 
taretur.     Missi  sunt  con- 
tra Pyrrhura  duces  P.Sul- 
picius  &  Decius  MusCon- 
sules.  Certamine  commis- 
so,     Pyrrhus    vulneratus 
est  elephantes  intcrfecti, 
viginta  millia  cxsa  hosti- 
mn;  Sc  ex  Romanis  tan- 
U.un  quincjue  millia.  Pyr- 
rhus Tare n tum  fugalus. 

14.  Interjecto  anno, 
contra  Pyrrhum  Fabricius 
est  missus;  qui  prius  in- 
ter legates  solicitari  non 


so  that  Pyrrhus  should  have 
that  part  of  Italy,  which  he 
had  already  seized  by  his  arms, 

13.   This    peace    dispdi^ased 
them,   and  word  was  sent  back 
again  to  Pyrrhus  by    the   6V- 
naie,    that   he    could  have  no 
peace  with  the  Rojnans,  unless 
he  retirtdout  of  Italy,      Then 
the  Romans  ordered  all.  he  pri' 
soners,  whom  Pyrrhus  had  re- 
stoed,   to    he   accounted  infa- 
mousy  who  had  been  able  to  dc' 
feJid  themselves  by  arms  ;   arid 
that  they  fhould  not  return  to 
their  former  condition,  before 
they   had  brought  out  of  the 
fitld  the  spoils  of  noted  enemies 
slain  by    themselves,     So     the 
ambassador  of  Pyrrhus  return» 
ed ;    of  whom   when   Pyrrhus 
enquired,  what  sort  of  a  place 
he  found   Rome  to  be,   Cineas 
told  him,  that  he  had  seen  the 
country  of  Kings;    for   they 
were  all  there  such,  as  Pijrrhus 
clone   was   thought   to   be    in 
lip  ire,  and  the  rest  of  Greece. 
The  Consuls   P,  Sulpicius  arid 
Decius  Mas  were  se?it  generals 
against  Pyrrhus,  yl battle  being 
fought,  Pyrrhus  was  wounded, 
his  elephants  killed,  and  twen- 
ty  thousand    of    the    enemies 
slain  ;  and  only  five  thomand 
of  the  Romans.     Pyrrhus  was 
driven  to  Tarentum. 

14.  A  year  after,  Fabricius 
was  sent  against  Pyrrhus,  who 
being  before  amongst  the  anu 
ba-isadorsy  could  not  be  tempted 


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EUTROPII 


potuerat,  quarta  parte 
regni  promissa.  Turn, 
cum  vicina  castra  ipse  et 
rex  haberent,  medicus 
Pyrrhi  ad  eum  nocte  ve- 
nit,  promiiiens  veneno 
Pyrrhum  occisurum,si  si- 
bi  aliquid  polliceretur; 
quern  Fabricius  vinctum 
rcduci  jussii  ad  dominum, 

Pyrrhoquedici,qu3c  contra 
caput  ejus  medicus  spo- 
spondisset.    Turn  rex  ad- 
Riiranseumdixisseferur: 
Ille  est  Fabricius,  qui  dif- 
ficilius  abiionestate,quam 
sol  a  cursu  suo  averii  po- 
test.    Tum  rex  in  Sicili- 
am  profectus  est.    Fabri- 
cius, victis  Samnitibu^  & 
Lucanis,        triumphavit. 
Consules     deinde    Marii- 
us  Curius    Dentatus,    & 
Cornelius  Lentulus  adver- 
sum  Pyrrhum  missi  sunt, 
&  Curiuscontra  eum  pu^- 
navit;  exercitum  ejus  ce- 
cidit;    ipsum    Tarentum 
fugavit,  castra  cepit.     Ea 
die  cnesa  sunt  hostiumvi- 
ginti  tria  millia.    Curius 
Dentatus  in  consulaiu  tri- 
umphavit.     Primus    Ro- 
mam  elephantos  qu.ituor 
duxit.     Pyrrhus  etiam  a 
Tarento  mox  recessil,  & 
apud  Argos  Grxcix  civi- 
tatem  occisus  est. 

15.  Caio  Fabricio  Lus- 
cino,  C.  Claudio  Cinna 
Consulibus,    anno   urbis 

♦  To  assist 


by  a  promise  of  the  fourth  fiurt 
of  Pyrrhus*  kingdom.      Then^ 
ivhilst  he  and  the  King  had  their 
cam/is  near  together^  Pyrrhus' 
fihy^iciun  came   to  him    in  the 
nighty    promising    to    take    off' 
Pyrrhus  by  fioison^  if  he  would 
promise  him  any   thing  for  his 
pains  ;  whom  Fabricius  order' 
ed  to  be  carried  back  bound  to 
his  master^  and  Pyrrhus  to  be 
told  what  the  physician  had  of 
frrcd  against  his  life.   Then  the 
King  admiring  him  is  reported 
to  have  saidy  Fabricius  is  the 
man  that  may  with  more  diffi* 
culty    be     removed  from    the 
ways  of  honor^    than    the  sun 
from    his  course»     *  Then  the 
King  went  into  Sicily,     Fabri" 
cius  having  conquered  the  Sam" 
nites  and  Lucanians  triumph' 
ed.      Then  the  consul»  Manius 
Curius  DeTitatusand  Cornelius 
I^entulus   were    sent     against 
Pyrrhus^    and    Curius  fought 
against  him^  cut  off  a    great 
part  of  his  army  ^forced  him  to 
Tarentum^  and  took  his  camp. 
That   day    twenty-three    thou* 
s^nd  of  the  enemy  were  slainm 
Curius    Dentatus  triumphs  d  in 
his  Consulship.  He  first  brought 
four  elephajits  to  Rome,    Pyr" 
rhus  likewise  soon  after  retired 
from  Tarentum.,  and  was  slain 
at  Argofty  a  city  of  Greece, 

15.  When  Caius  Fabricius 
I^usciniiSy     and    C,   Claudius 
Cinna  were  Consuls  in  the  year 
the  SyracHsiaiis 


LIBER  n.  5^ 

•ondita  cccclxi.  legati  A-  *  46 1  from  the  building  of  the 
lexaiidrini  a  Piolemaeo  city,  ambassadors  from  Alcxan- 
missi,  Ronrjam  venere,  &  dria  sent  by  Ptolemy  came  to 
a  Romanis  amicitiam,  Rome^  and  obtained  of  the  Ro- 
quam  petierant,  obtinue-  mans  the  alliance  which  theL 
runt.  had  desired,  ^ 

IG.  Quinlo  Gulone,  C.        16.  When  Q.  Gulo  and  C. 
i-abio  PictoreConsuhbus,    Fabius  Pictor  were  Cofufyj'-^ 
icentes  bellum  commo-    the  Picentes  raised  a  war,  and 
vere;  &  ab  inscquentibus    '^^^re  conquered  by  the folhwinrr 
Coiisulibus    Publ.    Sem-    Consuls,    P    Sempronius    and 
promo,     Appio    Claudio    Appius  Claudius  ;  and  thsy  tri 
victi   sunt;    Scde   his  tri-    umphed  over  them.   Two  c it iel 
wmphatum  est,  Conditx  a    were  then  built  by  the  Roinart 
Romanis    civitates,     Ar-    ^  Arminium  in  Gaul,  and  ISc* 
mmium  m  Gallia,   &  Be-    neventum  in  Samnium. 
neven  um  in  Samnio. 

17.  Marco  Aitilio  Re-  17.  When  M.  AttiUus  Re 
gulo,  Lucio  Junio  Libone  gulusa',d  L.  Junius  JLibo  werJ 
Consulibus  Salcntinis  in  Consuls,  war  was  Proclaimed 
Apulia  btrllum  mdictum  agaimt  the  Salentines  in  Ahv 
est;  captique  sunt  cum  lia ;  and  the  t  Brundusmn' 
CI v.tate  sinuil  Brtmdusini,  were  taken,  together  wnh  tZv 
&cle  las  triumphatum  est.    city,  and  there  was  a  triumph 

upon  their  account, 

18.  Anno  cccclxxvii.  is  Tn  the  ijear  477.  wh,» 
cumjamclarumurbi.Ro-  now  th.name  of  the  city  R 
mx  nomen  esset,  arma  ta-  was  famous,  yet  their  arms  had 
men  extra  Italiam  mota  not  been  carried  out  of  halu 
nonfuerant.  Ut  igitur  That  therefore  it  might  be  known 
cognosceretur,  quae  copise  what  the  forces  of  the  Roman» 
Romanorum  essent,  cen-  were,  a  Census,  or  survey  C^ 
susest  habitus;  tum  in-  taken;  then  the  heads  of  Z 
venia  sunt  civium  capita  citizens  were  found  to  be  two 
ccxcn.  mdlia  cccxxxui.  hundred  and  ninety  two  thZ 
quanquam  a  condita  urbe  sand  three  hundred  and  thiny. 

*  It  should  be  470. 

by^.he  Romans  ^' sirT^  ""  ""  k''  ""'••'  "^  ""'y-  ^^''^^  »«•■*  call«l 
uy  >ne  iiomani,,  (,„//,„  Cisai'mu,  because  inhabited  bv  c,  „\.     I      ■ 

n«,n.  l^s  upon  th,  Adriatic  ,ea,  'and  i.  now  "aMeSK','     "    ^™'" 

t  Brandusium,  now  called  «,„«/„/,■,  lies  in  that  oart  of  ii,i.,    t-  i. 

w»  fonnerly  c^ed  Calaina.  upon  tie  U^.^.'^i^^^l^^X 


5'6 


LUTKOPil 


LIBER  IL 


»r 


Afri.5  &  rege  Sicllix  Hie- 
roiiC  Iriumphavit. 


jS.    ln«;eqiicnte    anno, 
"V tlftiio  Marco  k  Octaci- 


nrnqiiambellacessassent.  thr^f^  though  ^vcrs  had  neve v 
Et  contra  AfiOi  btllum  ctased from  the  bnildhig  of  the 
susct'ptum  est  primum,  city.  And  the  first  'ivur  ivas 
Appio  Ciaudio  &  Quinto  undertaken  againat  the  Afn- 
F ulvio  C,;onsuIibus.  in  Si-  caiis,  ^vhen  .'iV;^/,/z^*  Claudius 
cilia  contra  ecspugnaun-i  and  Q,  Fulvius\vcrc  Cousuis. 
^^st,&  Appiiis  Claudius  cle     ^ Vie i/  fought  against  than   ir. 

'"^icilit,  and  Jppius  Claudius 
triumfihcd  for  his  conquest  of 
the  Afriamsy  and  Hiero  King 
cf  Sicily, 

]y.  In   tlie  foil 07V ing    year, 
.       ,  vJicn    Valerius    Marcus    and 

I'oConbulibus»  in  Sicilia  a  Ocracilius  WGYeCoJi&uls,  great 
Homanis  res niaL>rna  {gestae  thing,^  vjere  fierforined  by  the 
£unt.  Tanrominitani,  Ca-  Ilomans  in  S:cihj.  *  The  7b«. 
lantnses,  &  pixterea  ror,iinita7ii^  Catanenses^and  50 
rjy.nquagmta  civilutes  in  ciiiea  besides  -.verc  taken  in 
f.demaccepu-esunt.  Ter-  upon  promise  of  good  quar- 
im  anno  ni  bicilia  contra  \cr.  In  the  3J  vcar,  war  ivas 
Uieronembciluniparatinn  levied  against  I'/icro  in  ."Sicily, 
est.  Is  cum  omni  nobi-  Jle  ivith  all  the  nobility  of  the 
litate  Syracusanorum  pa-  ^yracusians  obtained  a  peace 
cem  a  Romanis  inipetra-  from  the  Romans,  and  ^ave 
vit,  deditque  argenti  tal-    them  Hvo  hundred  U^lents  of 

silver.  The  Africmis  in  Sicily 
ivere  coiiquercd^  and  there  ivas 
a  triumph  a  second  time  at 
Jiojne  upon  their  accrunt, 

...  20.   In  the    \  5th  tmr  of  the 

Funici,  quod  contra  Afros  Punick  ivar,  which  ivas  carried 
gertbaliir,  prnnum  Ko-  on  agamu  the  Jfricans,  the 
rnani  C.  Duilio  &  Cn.  liomaus  first  fought  by  sea, 
Corncho  Asnio  Consuli-  vvhen  C.  Uidlius,  and  C.  Cor. 
busjininandimicaverunt,  nelius  Minus  >vcic  Con,uls, 
paraus  navibus  roslratis,   Providing  [ovih^iwposQ  ships 

UuJVirr^^^fn'^  '"^  Catanenscs  lay  on  the  cast  side  of  the 

Jsnu^AlifTT?^'^''''?-  ?^  '"   the  common  reckoning  of  n^oney, 

J^s.  '  Klti^:^  J     ,T'  '"^'''\  '''T  '''^'  ^'^^^  ^^  ^^^^-^  »'^^"  i"  value 
''t  T     '"^'^/"^•'•^  t'^^"  ^^vo  hundred  pouudi  sierluu 
t  The  lourth  jt  should  have  been. 


2nta  ducenta.  Afri  in  Si- 
cilia  victi  sunt,  Sc  de  his 
secundo  Romse  trium- 
l^haium  est. 

20.  Quinto  anno  belli 


J"" 


quas  "Liburnas  vocabant.  ivith  Nostra,  which  they  called 
Consul  Cornelius  frau-  *  Libumian,  The  Comul  Cor^ 
de  deceptusest.  Duihus,  nellus  ivas  ^  trepamied  by 
commissoprxlio,  Cartha-  treachery,  Duilius  giving  the 
ginensiom  ducem  vicit,  tr\tn\Y  battle,  drfcated  the  ge- 
triginta  naves  et  alteram  neral  of  the  Carthaginians,  took 
cepit,  xiv.  mersitjviij.mil-  31  ships,  sunk  fourteen,  took 
lia  hostium  cepit,  tria  mil-  tight  thousand  of  the  enemies^ 
lia  occidit ;  neque  ulla  vie-  and  killed  5000  ;  nor  ivas  any 
toria  Romanis  gratiorfuit,  victory  more  acceptable  to  the 
quod  in  victi  terra,  jame  I  i-  Romans^  because  being  invin-^ 
am  mari  plurimum  pos-  cible  by  land,  they  ivere  noi9 
sent.  C.  AquilioFloro,  L.  very  powerful  too  by  sea»  C. 
Scipione  Consulibus,  Sci-  Jquilius  Florus,  and  L,  Scipio 
pio  Corsicam  &  Sardini-  being  Consids,  Scipio  wasted 
am  vastavit,  multa  mijlia  Corsica  and  Sardinia,  carried 
inde  capiivorum  abduxil,  off  many  thousand  priseners 
triumphum  egit.  from  thence,     and   had  a  tri^ 

U7nph, 
21.  Lucio  Manlio  Vol-         21.  Z.  Manlius  Volso,  and 
soneM.AttilioConsulibus.    M.  Jttilius  being  Consuls,    the 
"bellummAfricamtransla-    war  ivas    carried   into    Africa 
turn  est  contra  Hamilca-    against  Bamilcar,   the  general 
remCarlhaginensiumdu-    of  the  Carthaginians  ;  a  battle 
cem  ;  in  man  pugnatum,    was  fought  at  sea,  and  he  was 
I'lctusque  est.  Nam  pcrdi-    comjuervd.  For  losing  64  ddhs 
-tislx.v.    navibu.  retro  se    he  steered  off ;  the  Romans  los( 
recep.t;     Romani    xxiii.    ^o  i  but  after  they  had  passed 
«m.serunt;     sed  cum    in    over  into  Africa,  they  first  of 
Afncanri  transissent,    pri-    all  tookClyPea,a  city  cfAfrrri 
inum  Clypeam  Africa  ci-    upon  surrender.     The  Consuls 
Vitatem  in  deditionem  ac-    advanced  up  to  Carthage,  and 
ceperunt.  Consules  usque    havtng  laid  waste  many  towns, 
ad  Carthagmem  processe-    Manlius  returned  victorious  to 

onn-V  Ai^'^r''  ''^'''^''  ^^^^^^^  and  brought  off 27  thou^ 
oppidis,  Manl.us  victor  sand  prisoners.  Attilius  Re. 
Romam   rednt,    &  xxvii.    gulus  remained  in  .4frica.   He 


^8 


EUTROPII 


LIBER  11. 


inilliacaptivorumreduxit.  drew  up  his  army  against  the 

AtliliusRcgulus  ill  Africa  ^ijricans^  and  engaging   with 

remansit      K   contra  Af-  l/iree  generals  of  the  Canha- 

rosaciem  instruxil, contra  ginians^   was   conqueror.     He 

tres  Carlhaginensium  du  slew  eighteen   thousand  of  the 

ces  dimicans,  victor  iuil:  enemies^    took   Jive    thousand 

xviii.   inillia  liostiiiin   ce-  wi:h    eight  eiefihuntSy  and  re- 

cidit,  quinqiie  millia  cum  ceived  74  cities  upon  proiuise 

viii.    ciephantib'js    ctpil.  of  quarter.    Then  the  conquer- 

Ixxiv.    civiiates  ni   fidcm  ed  Carthaginians  begged /icace 

accepit.  Tir.nvictiCartha-  of  the  Romans;    which  when 

ginenscspucemaRomanis  Regulus  would  not  grant  them 

pcticrui^M  :  qnamcuinRe-  but  upon  very  hard  terms,  the 

gului noil jt nisi  durissimis  Jjricans  begged   assistance  of 

con(liti;.i.ibus    dale,   Afri  the  Lacedemonians ;  and  by  the 

aiixilium  a  Lacedxinoniis  general    Xanti/i/ius^    who    was 

peti'-Mint:  Sc  dncc  Xanlip-  suit   them    by  the  Lacedemo- 

po,    qui  a   Lact  dxmoniis  ?uans,   the  general   o/  the  Ro- 

m.  •  !is   fiierat,    Homano-  mans,    Regulus,    was  defeated 

rumduxHej;nhi. victusfst  with/irodigious  slaughter:  for 

ulf-imu  periiicic  :  nam  duo  there  were  only  two  (hou-^and 

in  111  i   tiominiim    tanum  men  I' ft  (f  all  the  Roman  ar- 

ex  omni  Roiii^no  exe'ci-  m'j ;   fft^en  thjusund  with  the 

tu  remanserimt  ;  qiiu-de-  commauder  Kei(uhis  were  tak- 

cini  millia   cum  iin;:eia-  en^  thirty  ihoiisaiul  slain^  Rc' 

loi-e    Rc^ulo  c  «pta   su:U,  gulus  himself  clujA  in  chains. 
7  XX.  millia  occisa.  Re  Jun- 
ius  ip't'  in  catenas   con- 
jectus. 

22.  M  .Emillo  Paulo,  22,  When  Af.  j^niiliua 
Seiv.  Fulvio  \(vbilio;e  Pauns.iXiid^-.  J'^ulv ins  A  obi- 
Con  ■^uhbii'i,  an. bo  Con-  liar  wttv  CunsulSi  borh  the 
sales  Romani  Afiicttm  Roman  C'msuls  went  to  jifrica^ 
profecti  sunt,  cum  trecen-  they  make  f^r  Clypta  ivith  a 
tarum  navium  cLisse  Cly-  feet  of  300  ships,  and  firoceed- 
peam  petunl,  Sc  coniia  ed  again-i  the  Carthageniani, 
Curlliai^inenses  vcnerunt.  I'hey  first  d  feat  the  Af  leans 
Pnmum  Afros  navuli  ccr-  in  a  sea  Ji:ht,  The  Consul 
tamine  superant.  iEnuli-  JEmilius  aunk*  104  ships  of' 
us  Coiibui  cen  um  Sc  qua-  the  enemies^  took  30  with  the 
tuor  naves  hoatiuui  de-  soldiern  on  board,  either  ^iet» 
mersit,  triijiQla  cnii  pug-  o^  took  15  thousand  of  the  en- 

*  itom«siay  114, 


39> 


latorrbus  cepit,    quinde- 
cim    millia  hostium    aut 
occidit,    aut   cepit,   mili- 
tem  suum  ingcnti  prxda 
ditavit  ;  Sc  subacta  Africa 
turn  fnissct,  nisi  tanta  fci- 
mes  fuisseTut  diutius  ex- 
pectareexercitus  non  pos- 
set.    Consules   cum  vic- 
trici  classe  rcdeuntes,  cir- 
ca   Siciliam    naufragium 
passi  sunt:   Sc  tanta  tem- 
pestas  fuit,  ut  ex  quadrin- 
gentis  sexaginta  quatuor 
Ravibus,  octoginta  serva- 
ri   vix   potuerint ;    neque 
ullo  tempore  tanta  mariti- 
ma  tempestas  r.udita  est. 
Romani  tamen  statim  tre- 
centas  naves  reparaverunt, 
neq;  in  aliquo  animus  his 
infract  us  fuit. 

23.  Cnxus  Servilius 
Cacpio  &  C.  Sempronius 
Blaisus  Consules  cum  du- 
ccntis  sexaginta  navibus 
ad  Africam  profecti  sunt, 
aliquotcivitates  ceperunt: 
p:asJam  ingentem  redu- 
cenies,  naufragium  passi 
sunt.  Itaque  cum  conti- 
iiuze  calamiiates  Romanis 
displicerent,  decrevit  se- 
nalus,  ut  a  maritimis  prae- 


niies,  and  enriched  his  sol- 
diers with  abundance  of  plun- 
der, And  Africa  would  have 
been  then  subdued,  if  there  had 
not  been  so  great  a  famine,  that 
the  army  could  not  stay  any 
longer.  The  Consuls  return- 
ing with  the  victorious  Jlcetf 
suffered sliipwreck  about  Sicily, 
And  so  great  was  the  tempesty 
that  of*464  ships,  scarce  four- 
score could  be  saved:  nor  wa» 
ever  so  great  a  tempest  at  sea. 
heard  of  at  any  time.  Yet  the 
Romans  irmnediately  built  300 
new  ships,  nor  was  their  cou-- 
rage  f  broken  in  ajiy  resjiect. 


23.    The  Consuls  Cndoiis  Ser- 
vilius Cxfiio.  and  C.    Sempro- 
nius Blccsus,  vjent  to  ylfric^with 
260  shi/is,  and  took  some  cities  ; 
and  bringing  buck  abundance  cf 
plunder,     suffered   shipwreck, 
therefore   because   these   con- 
tinued losses  did  not  please  the 
Rowans,  the  Senate  decreed  to 
decline  fighting  at  sea,  and  that 
there  should  ouly  sijcty  ships  be 
kef  it  for  the  security  of  Italy. 


nistlv  f  k/  T  )'  am.stake  in  the  number,  as  Madam  Darler 
t^Af^^:iH  •,'wV  /''■*'"  ''?  '>ut  just  told  us,  that  the  Consuls  went 
iome  f?..  n  .  f  it'^''\?"^  '•'"'  "^*^-  '^^'^^  '^"^^  3«'  ^^'^i^-'^  together 
fr.<n^  ■  ri.  i.^^'''  there  „H,.st  he  therefore  a  mistake  made  by 
ItwtvTf  ..    1  ^"\T  ^"«^•'^  <^^  ^thcr,  ti.e  author  could  not  be 

guilty  of  such  a  contradiction, 

.ietifi?l7fn  n/n''''^  "'"^"^'  f^"'^"^  unhnken,  has  sometimes  tl,e 
Signification  of  the  simple  ^^•o^■<^fructu.,  as  hero,  and  in  F/;-.../, 

lorjK-ut    ififieiciecud^rceiw  i:ru,  " 


it 


EUTROPlt 


LIBER  IT. 


4! 


liis  (liscederetur,  2c  tan- 
tum  sexagintn  naves  ad 
pr  asidium  Iiali»  salvx  es- 
sent. 

24.  Lucio  Cxcilio  Me- 
tello,  C.  furio  Pacello 
Consulibus,  Metellus  in 
Sicilia  Afrorum  ducem 
cum  cxxx.  elephantis,  & 
magnis  copiis  venientem 
superavit ;  xx.  miUia  hos- 
tium  cecidit,  sex  &  viginti 
clephantos  cepit,  reliquos 
crrantes  per  Numidas, 
quos  in  auxilium  habebat, 
collcgit,  &  Romam  de- 
duxit  ingenii  pompa,  cum 
cxxx.  elephantorum  nu- 
mero  omnia  itinera  com- 
pleret.  Post  hzec  ma- 
la Canhaginenses  Regu- 
lum  ducem,  quern  cepe- 
rant,  petierunt,  ut  Romam 
proficisceretur,  8c  pacem 
a  Romanis  obiineret,  ac 
pcrmutationem  captivo- 
rum  face  ret. 

25.  Ille  Romam  cum 
venisset,  inductus  in  sena- 
tum,  nihil  quasi  Romanus 
egit ;  dixitque  se  ex  ilia  die, 
quainpolestatemAfiorum 
venisset,  Romanuni  esse 
desivisse.  Itaque  &  uxor- 
em  a  complexu  removit, 
Sc  Romanis  suasit,  ne  pax 
cum  Poenis  fieret :  illos 
enim,  tVactos  tot  casibus, 
spem  nuUam  habere  ;  se 
tanti  non  esse,  uttotmil- 
lia  captivorum  propter 
unum  se  £^  scnem,  8c  pau- 


2i.  When  L.  Cjcitins  ^fe- 
iclluiy  and  C.  Furiw  Pacellus 
wers  Consuls f  Metellus  defeated 
in  Sicily  a  general  of  the  Afri' 
canSf  coming  against  him  with 
ISO ele/iha7itsy  and ava^t army i 
he  killed  20,000  of  the  enemies^ 
took  26  ele/ihanfs,  and  /licked 
ufi  the  rest  that  strayed  away 
by  means  of  the  NumidianSy 
ivhom  he  had  to  assist  him^  and 
brought  them  te  Rome  in  great 
pompy  filling  all  the  roads  with 
this  number  of  \  SO  elephants. 
Jfter  these  misfortunes^  the 
Carthaginians  desired  the  gen- 
eral Eegulus,  whom  they  had 
takeny  to  go  to  Bomf,  and  pro* 
cure  a  peace  for  themy'ro'w  the 
Roman Sy  and  make  an  exchangt 
oj  prisoners. 


25.  Jfter  he  was  come  t9 
Pome^  bei?ig  brought  into  the 
Senate^  he  acted  nothing  as  a 
Romany  and  said  that  from  the 
day  in  which  he  came  into  the 
ha?ids  of  the  Jfricansy  he  had 
ceas^cd  to  be  a  Roman,  Where- 
fore he  both  hindered  his  wife 
from  embracing  him ;  and  ad- 
vised the  Romans,  that  a  /:eace 
should  not  be  made  with  the 
Carthaginians;  J  or  thai  they^ 
being  brought  so  low  by  so  ma- 
ny misfortunes^  had  no  hopes ; 
that  he  was  not  so  much  worthy 


cos  qui  ex  Romanis  capti 
fuerant,  redderentur :  ita- 
que  obtinuit.  Nam  Afros 
pacem  petentes  nullusad- 
mibit.  Ipse  Caiihaginem 
rediit ;  offcretuibusque 
Romanis,  ut  eum  Romaij 
tenerent,  negavit  se  in  ea 
111  be  mansunmi,  in  qua, 
posiquam  Afris  sei  vieral, 
dignitatem  honesti  civis 
habere  non  posset.  Re- 
gressus  igitur  ad  Africam 
omnibus  suppliciis  ex- 
linctus  est. 


that  so  many  thousand  po'i.'icn- 
crs  should  he  restored  for  him 
aloney  en  old  juauy  and  a  few 
of  the  Romans^  that  were  ta- 
kc7i ;  and  accordiiig'y  he  carri- 
ed it  ;  for  no  one  would  hearken, 
to  the  African Sy  upon  their 
desiring  a  peace,  lie  returned 
to  Curthcge-y  *a?}d  the  Romans 
offering  to  keefi  him  at  Rome, 
he  ddJiied  that  he  would  conti- 
nue in  that  city,  in  whichy  af- 
ter he  had  been  in  a  state  (fcafi- 
tivity  amongst  the  Jfricansy  he 
could  not  have  the  dignity  of 
an  honorablecitizen,  Wherifore 
return is:g  to  JfricCy  t  he  was 


*  If  tlie  17omniis  did  oflVr  to  koep  KcgUiUs,  ronirary  to  his  word 
given  the  Caithagiiiiauii  to  lefmn,  it  uas  \ery  b»<e  and  disljonoiable 
in  them,  and  not  a-riet-able  to  the  acrouuts  tjieir  historians  give  us  of 
their  oondnct,  upon  oiher  hke  orc"asioi;s. 

f  The  truth  of  tliis  particular  of  the  story,  thouah  we  meet  with  it 
in  many  and  tlie  Lest  of  tJ»e  Koiiiau  authois,  and  though  it  he  not  ex- 
pressly cjutradicted  ()y  any  o  <e  tiUier  uf  tlie  Rouians"  or  Greeks  that 
nrite  the  Poman  story,   yet  it  is  very  justly  qu>'Stioned  hy  some. 
For,   1st,   Folyl)ius,  who  writes  the  histoiy  of  this   war,  sayii  not  a 
word  of  it ;  of  which  silence,  in  a  matter  so  remarkable  and  important, 
Jio  other  account  can  be  given,  but  that  he  did  not  be'Jeve  it,  or  knevr 
it  to  be  false,  but  perhaps  had  no  mind  to  take  notice  of  it,  as  such, 
for  fear  of  givir.g  oflence  to  tiie  IJomans,  who  appear  to  have  been 
fond  of  th.e  story.     2*11  v,   U'e  learn  from  a  fragment  of  Dio.lortis  Sicu- 
jup,  th-^t  the  iwo  Carthajrinian  generals,  Bostar  and  Hamilcar,  taken 
prisoners  in  this  war,    weie  put  into  tJje  hands  of  the  Attilii,  s-ms  of 
this  Kegulus ;  that  some  time  after,  upon  the  death  of  Kegulus,  hig 
widow  supposing  he  had  died  from  <  ruel  treatment,  incensed" her  song 
so  much  au:ainst  their  priioneis,  that  by  their  ill  usage  of  them,  one 
of  them  died  ;  and  complaint  being-  made  to  the  tribunes  of  the  Com- 
mons of  the  matter,  they  summoned  tlie  young  gentlemen  before  them, 
and  threatened  them  with  very  severe  punishment,  if  they  did  net  for 
the  time  to  come  take  all  fitting  and  due  care  of  their  prisoners  ,•   and 
that  they  narrowly  escaped  benjg  put  to  death  for  v/hat  they  had  done, 
as  highly  tending  to  the  scandal  of  the  Koman  name.     From  whicit 
put  lojicther,  it  appears  very  likely,  that  this  sfory  of  the  cruel  death 
Kt-uius  was  put  to,  was  a  pure  invention  of  the  Attilii,  or  their  mo- 
ther, to  cover  or  excuse  their  own  barbarity.     See  Palermius'  note 
upon  Appiamus  Alexandrinus  of  Millius'  edition,  vol,  2;  p.  4. 
*  From  the  building  of  the  eitv,  510. 

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I.IBER  II. 


4S 


26.  P  .  Chudio  Pul- 
chro,  C.  JunioConsulibus, 
Claudius  contra  auspicia 
piii^nuvit,  &  a  Caitha- 
^'ineniiibus  victus  est : 
N.;iii  ex  ducentis  etviginti 
navlbus,  cum  tri?-inta  fiv- 
git:  xc.  cum  pugnatoribiis 
capta  sunt,  demersx  c?;- 
leise,  vij^intiir.illiacapta. 
Alius  quoque  consul  clas- 
stm  nautVagio  amisit,  ex- 
ercitura  tamen  salvumha- 
buit ;  quia  vicina  littora 
crant. 

-7.  Caio  Luctatio  Catu- 
lo,  Aulo  Poslhumio  Al- 
bino Consulibus, anno  bel- 
li Punici  vigesimo  lertio, 
Catulo  belUim  centra  Af- 
ros commis>um  est.  Pro- 
fecUis  est  cum  ccc.  navi- 
bus  in  Siciliam.  Afii  con- 
tra ipsum  Gccc.  pa  rave- 
runt.  Luctatius  Catulus 
navemxgerascendit:  vul- 
neratus  enim  in  pugna 
superiore  fuerat.  Conira 
Lilybxum  civitatem  Sici- 
hx  pugnatum  est  ingenti 
"viriute  Romanorum ;  ram 
Ixxiii.  Carthaginensium 
naves  captac  sunt,  cxxv. 
demersx;  xxxii.  millia 
hostium  capta,  xiii.  occi- 
sa«  infinitum  auri  argen- 


,/iut  to  death  with  all    manner 
of  tortures, 

26.  When  P.  Claudius 
Pulcher,  and  C.  Junius  were 
Consuls,  Claudius  /ought  con» 
trarij  to  the  auspices,  and  was 
defeated  by  the  Carthaginians  ; 
for  hejled  with  30  only  of  220 
shifis ;  90  ivcre  taken  loith  the 
soldiers  on  board ;  the  rest  vjere 
sunk  and  tweniy  thousand  men 
made  /iri^oners.  The  other 
Consul  too  lost  his  fleet  by  ship'» 
wreck,  yet  saved  his  army  be" 
cause  the  shore  was  near. 


27.  C.  Luctatius  Catulus  and 
A.  JFosthumius  Albinus  being 
Consuls,  in  the  year  of  the  Car- 
thagi?iian  war  23,  the  war 
against  the  Africans  was  com- 
mitted to  Catulus»  He  nvent 
with  300  ships  into  Sicily,  The 
Africans  fitted  out  400  against 
him»  Luctatius  Catulus  went 
aboard  his  ship  sick^  for  he  had 
been  wounded  in  a  former flght, 
A  battle  was  fought  with  the 
utmost  braver^  on  the  Roman 
side,  over  against  *  Lily^ 
baum,  a  city  of  Sicily  ;  for  73 
shijis  of  the  Carthaginians  were 
taken,  125  sunk,  thirty -two 
thousand  of  the  enemies  made 
/irisonersy  and  thirteen  thou- 
sand slain.  An  inflnite  quantity 
of  gold  and  silver  came  int§ 


tique  pondus  in  potestatem 
Romanoium      redactum. 
Ex  classe  Romana  duode- 
cim  naves  demergac;  pug- 
natum est  vi.  idus  Marii- 
as.    Statim  Carthaginen- 
ses  pacem  petierunt,  tri- 
butaque  iis  pax.  Captivi 
Romanorum,     qui    tene- 
bantur   a  Carthaginensi- 
bus,  reddiii  sunt,    litiani 
Carthaginensespetierunt, 
ut  redimi  eos  captivos  li- 
ceret,  quos  ex  Afiis   Ro- 
mani   tenebant.     Senalus 
jussit  sine  pretio  dari  eos, 
(]ui  in  piiblica  custodia  es- 
sent;  qui  autem  a  privatis 
tenerenlur,   ut,  pretio  do- 
minis   reddito,   Carthagi- 
nem   redirent;    atque  id 
pretium    ex    fisco   magis 
quam  aCarihagincnbibus 
solveretur. 


28.  Quintus  Luctatius, 
Aulus  Manlius  Consules 
creati,  bellurti  Faliscis  in- 
tiilcrunt;  quae  civitas  Ita- 
liac  opulenta  quondam  fu- 
it:  quod  ambo  Consules 
intrascx  dies  postquam  ve- 


the  fiosscsaion  of  the  Romans  s 
twelve  shi/is  of  the  Roman  fleet 
were    sunki      this    battle   wa% 
Jought  upon  the   *sixth   before 
the  ides  cf  March,     ImmedU 
ately  the  Carthaginians  sued  for 
fitace,  and  a  peace  was  grant» 
ed  to  them.      The  prisoners  of 
the  Roman Sy  who  were  in  fws» 
session    of  the    Carthaginians^ 
were    restored.      The    Cart  ha» 
giriians  likewise  desired,    they 
might  be  permitted  to  redeein 
their  prisoners,  which  the  Ro- 
mans had  of  I  he  Africans,  -[The 
Senate  ordered  those  to  be  re» 
stored  without    ransom,    whg 
who  were  in  the  custody  of  the 
public;  but  for  those  who  were 
in  the  possession  of  private  per» 
sons,  that  their  ransom  money 
being  paid  their  masters,  they 
should  return  to  Carthage;  and 
that    that    money     should    be 
paid  out  of  the  public  treasury, 
rathtr  than  by  the  Carthagini^ 
ane, 

28.  Quintus  Luctatius  and 
Aidufi  Manlius  being  cliosen 
Consuls,  made  war  upon  the 
Falisci:  which  was  formerly  a 
wealthy  state  of  Italy;  which 
the  Consuls  together  finished  in 
six  day8,ofter  they  came  there 2 


*  Lilybaeum  lay  ia  tb€  southwest  €tro€r  of  tbc  isbiad,  A«ar  a  csrpe 
•f  ih^  samcuumt» 


*  That  is  on  the  1 0th  of  March.  For  in  Ihe  months 
July  and  October,  the  15th  day  was  called  the  Ides, 
the  second  of  the  Ides,  or  prid.e  idwou,  and  so  backw 
day,  which  in  the  forementioned  months  was  called 
in  all  the  other  months,  the  13th  was  the  Ides,  and  th 

f  This  was  generous  and  noble,  and  notiinii?  like 
^«Sulus,  to  tUe  lum  of  |ii5 b^RQi;  and  their  ewa  shajue 


of  Af arch,  May, 
the  day  before, 
ards,  till  the  7th 
the  Nones ;  but 
e  5th  the  Kones. 
ofieriiig  to  keep 


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nerant,  tran^egenint,  x\\  fifi-cn  thousand  of  the  enemy 

miliibus    hostium     rxsis,  beiu:^  slaiih  a  pt-ace  granted  to 

cxterib  pace  coricessa,  ai;-  the  rest^    and  net  their  land  to 

ro    lamv^n   ex    medietate  the  half  tiart  bdn^  taken  form 

subluto.  them^ 


EUTROPTI 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORIJE  ROMANJEl. 


0:0^ 


LIBER  III. 


^^ 


F, 


INITO  igitur  Punico 
bcllo,quod  per  xxii.  annos 
conlractum  esi ;  Romani 
jamclurissima  gloria  iioti, 
kgatos  ad  Fioleniseum, 
^gypti  regem,  iiuseru:)t, 
auxilia  promiilentes  :q'iia 
rex  SyrijE  Aniiochus  ei 
bellum  ininlerat.  llle 
graiias  Roman  is  ecjit, 
auxilia  non  accepit:  jam 
enim  fuerat  piigna  trans- 
acla  Kodem  icmpore  pn- 
teniissimus  rex  Sic.ilix 
Hiero  Romani  venit,  ad 
ludos  spcctaiidos,  &  du- 
centamillia  modiojuiuii'i- 
tici  populo  dono  detliu 

2.  Liicio  Coriieli*>  Len- 
tulo,  Fulvio  Flacco  Co'i- 
sulibus,  quibus  Hiero  Ro- 


W, 


HEREFORK    the  F^u* 

nick  war  being  ended ^  which^ 
was  carried  on  for  22  years ^ 
the  Romans  beii.ff  now  famous 
for  their  most  ct'ehrated  glory ^ 
aent  umbafisud^^rs  to  Ptolemy ^ 
King  of  Kgij/i t .  prom  ising  him 
assistance ;  because  ylntiLchuSy 
King  of  .S\'  ia  hud  uiude  war 
upon  hlm^  He  gitve  thanks  to 
the  Kumnns,  b'it  did  not  accept 
their  ansistavd  ;  Jor  now  the 
war  was  ended,  At  the  same 
time  Hiero  the  most  /loiverful 
King  of  iSicily,  came  to  Komc 
to  see  thf  nu!~)lic  gom^fi^  a?id 
presented  200,000  *Modii  of 
wheat  tj  the  people, 

2.  L.  Cornelius  Lentnlns  and 
JFulvius  Flaccus  being  Consuls^ 
in  w/iuse  year  Hiero  had  come 


*  The  Mod'rts  is  commonly  computed  to  be  about  a  peck  aad  s 
kalf  of  our  measure. 


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mam  venerat,  etiam  con-  to  Romc^  a  vjarivas  carried  on 

tra  Ligures  intra  Italiam  likeivise  oi^ainst  the  Ligurians 

belliim   gestnm  est,  el  de  within   Itahj^  and  there  nous  a 

histriumj)halum.  Cattha-  triumjih    ufvm    their   Qceoxmt, 

ginenses  turn  bella  repar-  The   Carthaginians    then    at» 

are  tentabant,  Sardinian-  teinf}ted  to  renerj  the  *ivar^  ex- 

sea,  qui  ex  conditione  pa-  citing  the  Sardinians^  vjho  by 

cis  Romanis  parerc  debe-  an  article  of  ptace  were  obliged 

bant,  ad  rcbellairJum  im-  to  be  subject  to  the  Romans^  to 

pellentes  :  Vcnittamenle-  rebel;   yet  an   embassy  of  the 

gatio      Carthaginensium  Carthaginians  came  to  Rome, 

Romam,  et  pacem  impe-  and  obtained  peace, 
travit. 

3.    Tito    Manlio  Tor-  3.    T.    ManliuR    Tovquatut 

qiiato,  Caio  Avtilio  Balbo  and  C    AtiUiua   Dalbus  being 

Consiilibus,  de  Sardis  tri-  Conauls^  there  was  a  tvium/ih 

umphaluiTi   est;    et   pace  over    the    Sardinians:    and  a 

omnibus  locis  facta,   Ro-  peace  being  made  in  all  places^ 

mani   nullum  btUum  ha-  the  Romans  had  no  war,  which 

buejunt,     quod    his   post  had  happened  to  them  but  once* 

Romam  conditam,  semel  since    the    building   of  Rome, 

taniimi,   Numa  Pompilio  when    J\'uma   Rowpilius   luas 

regnante,  contiti^erat-  reigfiing, 

4   Lucius    Posthumius  4.   The  Consuls  L.  Posthu- 

Alhinus,  Cnreus    Fulvius  miiis  Albimu,  Cficcus  Fulvius 

CentumaltisConsulcs  bel-  Centumalwi  carritdon   a  war 

lum  conti't?  Illyrios  gesse-  against   the    Jlhjrians:  and  ret- 

ruiU:  el  muliii.  civittitibus  ing  many  cities,  received  like- 

captis,  eliam  reges  in  de-  wise  their  f-rinces  upon  siibmis» 

flitionem          acceperunt.  si(.u.      Th-n  for  the  first  time 

Turn  primuin  de  lllyriis  thfre  was  a  triumph  over  the 

trinmphatum  est.  Illurians. 

5.    Lucio  jEmlio  Con-  5.      When     X.     Mniilius 

sule,    in.;;entes  Gallorum  was   Consul^    a  vast  army    of 

eopix  Alj)es  I'-ansicruiil :  tha  Gauls  Jiasftcd  the  Jlps:  but 

sed  pro  Homanistola  ha-  all  Italy  was  unanimous  for  the 

iiaconsenbit:  tiadilumque  Romans;  and  it  is  recorded  by 

est  F?bio  historico,  qui  ei  Fabius  the  historian,  who  was 

belio  inttrfuit,  dccc.  mil-  actually  present  in   that  war, 

lid  homuium  parata  ad  id  that   *eight   hundred  thousand 

*  All  iijce  lib!e  number,  consid  ring  the  fxoma.Ms  ir,)ori  other  ocoa- 
ei'jiis  licver  aiiucU'J  t''t'at  anaieii  tbey  rarely  evcofctled  forty  tUo«- 


tellum  fuisse :  sed  res  per 
Co  ibulestanii»mprospere 
gesia  est :  xl  millia  host- 
iiim  interfccta  sunt,  el  tri- 
unipluis  ^E  nilio  decretus. 

6.  Ali(]uoi  deiiidc  anr.is 
post,  contra  Gal:os  intra 
liaham  puguatian  Cbl : 
finitnmciUc;  est  bellum 
Marco  Ciuudio  Marctho, 
Cnxo  CoiMitUo  Scipioue 
Coubulibus.  'i'unc  Marcel 
]l:s  cnm  parva  nianu  f  qni- 
tum  diiiiicavii,  et  v*.v^  m 
Giilloium,  Viridom.i  uni 
nomine,  maruK  uaocr.idit. 
Posted  c  iui  coUega  suo 
iiigentes  co))ias  '^/  liorum 
pcremit;  Medicli  •  um  ex- 
pugn.  vit  :  grui.  ;  m  prrc- 
dum  Romam  peilulit-  ac 
li-iiimphans  Marr^l';--) 
spolia  Gt;!'.i  slipiti  impu 
situ  Iiumcris  tuis  vexlt 

7.  M  Alinucio,  P.  Cor- 
neli.>Coi>ulibub)IsHi'o  bel- 
lum illaium  eat,  ('  '..  latro- 
ciuati  naves  Ron.  u.rum 
fuerant,  qux  ttuinei:;a 
exhibc bant ;  pt rdomificj ; 
sunt  omnes.  Lodcm  an- 
no   Punicum    t-ecundmn 


men  were  levied  for  that  wari 
but  the  busititss  ivas  success- 
fully  managed  by  the  Consuls 
only  ;  foriy  thou.^and  of  the  e- 
nemy  were  slain;  and  a  tri" 
« inph  vot edfo r  Aim /  liu s, 

6.  Then  someyi'ars  after,  the 
Romans  again  engaged  against 
the  Gauls  within  Italy:  and  the 
W'lr  was  ended  by  theCvnsulsM, 
Ciandius  Murecllus  and  Cit^eu» 
Coinr'ius  Sci/no.  Then  M.ir- 
ctllus  /lugt-:t  the  enen.y  with 
a  srnat.  body  of  horse ^  and  slrw 
the  King  of  the  Gauls  f^irido^ 
marus  by  name^  with  i.iS  own 
hands,  Jficrwards  with  his 
colUagve  he  cut  off  a  v., si 
army  oj  '-'n'  G-^ds,  took  ^Me» 
diolanuhi  .  nci  bu  ought  cbun- 
dance  of  .  nder  tu  Rome,  And 
MarceAus  in  h'f^  trium-h,  car- 
ried upon  //.  V  stKAudcrs  the  spoils 
c/  /// •  Gaul  h:ng  upon  a  ^:,..:e, 

7.  J\I,  Mhiucius  and  P,  Cor- 
ne:  .f  beu:g  consuls,  a  war 
wns  made  u/f  n  the  ffstrians^ 
bi  cause  tlity  hud  r  b'  f/ some 

''s  of  ilie  Rcr.iuns,  which 
HVii  t  bringing  corn  to  the  ci  t  v  ; 
and  th(  j  were  a  I  concjuered  In 
the  \  sumeymr  the  second  war 


sand,  and  were  often  n  urh  below  that  number;  their  successes  weve 
owing  to  the  adiniiaUK  'ontrixaiicc  of  their  governujeji^  ai  houje,  for 
the  cnrourn'^eujent  ut  tiue  merit,  and  then  g.,o<l  disci;  liiit  m  their 
ainui:>  abi,.;ui.  But  Ihi  e  ira  «:d:na;y  prej-aatioi:  lor  the  leception 
of  tije  (lau.s,  wasthe  clieci  .>^  hat  tt;;nl>le  iiii|>iesMut),  Uje  sacking- of 
Roine  by  that  ^eo\>\e,  had  in  .  e  m   l.u  Uiindsoithe  Koni;.ns 

*  In  !lie  northwest  |  srts  of  Italy,  artve  the  I'o,  tho  capital  city  of 
the  I  «ople  called  Galli  In^ubre^^,  now  Mi. an. 

t  The  ..   ii  were  a  people  iyu.g  betwixt   taly  and  'Myricum. 

X  This  i.i  a  mistake  ;  it  wa.-  two  yea.s  after  iii.    the  second  Punick 
war  beguji,  viz.  m  the  year  fioui  iiio  building  of  Rome  534. 


w^ 


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LIBER  III. 


Romanis  Ulatum  est  per 
Annibalem  Carthaginen- 
sinm  ducem,  qui  Sagun- 
tum  Hispaniae  civitaiem, 
Romanis  amicam  oppup:- 
nare  apjgressuscst,  agens 
viscesm  Jm  x*alis  annum  ; 
copiis  congregatiscl.  mil- 
libub  pcditumet  XX.  milli- 
bus  eqiiiiuTTi.  Huic  Ro- 
mani  per  legates  denunci- 
averunt,utbeIlo  abslineret. 
Iblegatosadmittere  noluit. 
Romani  etiam  Carihagi- 
ncm  niiseruni,  ut  manda- 
retur  Anr.ibali,  ne  bellum 
contra  socios  populi  Ro- 
mani gcrreretrscd  durare- 
spoiiSH  a  Carthaginensi- 
bus  reddiia.  Saguntini  in- 
terc:a,fanie  victi ;  capiique 
ab  Annibalc,  uliimis  poe- 
'i\h  afiiciuniur. 


8.  Turn  Publius  Corne- 
lius Scipio  cum  exercitu 
in  Hispaniam  profectus 
est,  Tiberius  Sempronius 
in  Siciliam,  bellum  Car- 
thaginensibus  indictum 
est.  Annibal  relicto  in 
Hispania  fratre  Asdrubale 
Pyienxum   tranbiit ;   Al- 


o/the  Carthaginians  V0A9  madf 
upon  the  Romansy  by  Jnnibal, 
general  of  the  Carthaginians,, 
who  ventured  to  attack  *Sagun- 
lum,  a  city  nf  Sjiatn^  and  an. 
o.Uy  of  the  lioinans^  when  he 
was  going  upon  the  t20^A  year 
of  his  age  ;  having  got  together 
an  army  of  an  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand Joot,  and  twenty 
thousand  horse.  The  Romans 
charged  him,  by  deputies  sent 
for  that  purpose,  to  forbear 
the  war,  he  would  not  admit 
the  deputies  to  a  hearing.  Tht 
Romans  likewise  sent  to  Car- 
thage, desiring  that  orders 
might  be  sent  to  AnnibaL  not  tt 
carrry  on  a  war  against  the  al- 
lies of  the  Roman  people :  but 
a  roii^h  reply  was  made  by  the 
Carthaginians.  In  the  mean 
time  the  SaguiJ(i7ii,  being  for- 
ced by  /amine,  and  taken  by 
jiiinibul,  were  subjected  to  phe 
must  extreme  punishments, 

8.  Then  P.  Cornelius  Sci/tio 
went  with  an  army  into  Spain^ 
Tiberius  Sempronius  into  Sici- 
ly, and  war  was  proclaimed  a- 
aginst  the  Carthaginians,  An- 
nibal  having  left  his  brother 
Asdrubal  in  Spain,  passed  the 
Pyrenaan,  and  laid  open  for 
himself  the  AlpSy   as    yet  un- 


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*  Saguntum  was  a  city  of  Hispania  Tairaconensis,  situated  about* 
mile  fi\»in  the  Mediterranean,  now  Morvedre. 

-j-  Atinibal  was  then  '^7  y*rars  of  ae:f. 

I  The  principal  inha!)itants  burnt  themselves,  and  their  substance i 
of  the  rest,  all  the  males  of  age  were  put  to  the  sword,  and  the  wo- 
mua,  &c.  divided  amongst  the  soldiers  as  booty. 


pes  adhuc  in  ea  parte  in-   fiassed  in  that  part.  He  is  said 
vias,  sibi  patefecit.    Tra-    to  have  brought  into  Italy  four ^ 
ditur    ad    Italiam    Ixxx.    score  thousand  foot,  arid  twenty 
millia  peditum,    et    xx.    thousand  horse,  and  seven  and 
millia  equitum,  septem  et    thirty  elephants.    In  the  mean 
trigintaclephantesaddux-    time,  many  of  the  Ligurians 
isse.   Interea  multi  Ligu-    and  Gauls  joined  themselves  to 
res  et  Galli  Annibali  se    AnnibaL      Sempronius    Grac» 
junxerunt.      Sempronius    thus  hearing  of  AnnibaVs  co^ 
Gracchus,  cognito  ad  Ita-    ming  itito  Italy,  drew  his  army 
liam  Annibalis  adventu,  e    out  of  Sicily  to  Ariminum, 
Sicilia  exercitum  Arimi- 
num  trajvcit. 

9.   Publius    Cornelius        9.  *  Publius  Cornelius  Sci- 
Scipio    Annibali   primus   pio  first  meets  An?iibalj    and 
occurrit:  commisso  prx-  joining  battle,   his  men   being 
Ho,  fugatis  suis  ipse  vul-    routed,   he  retwmed  wouJided 
neratus  in  castra  rediit.    into  the    camp,      Semproniua 
Sempronius  .Gracchus  et    Gracchus     likewise     engaged 
ipse  conflixit  apud  Trebi-    him  at  the  river  f  Trebias;  hs 
am  amnem :  is quoque  vin-    likewise  is  defeated.     Many  in 
citur.  Annibali  multi  se  in    Italy  surrendered  themselves 
Italia  dediderunt.  Inde  ad    to  AnnibaL  From  thence  AnnU 
Tusciam   veniens   Anni-    bal  coming  into  Tuscia  meets 
bal,  Flaminio  Consul!  oc-    nvith    the    Consul  Flaminius^ 
currit :  ipsum  Flaminium    slew  Flaminius  himself   andj 
interemit:     Romanorum-  25,000  Romans  besides  were 
viginti  quinque  millia  ex-    killed:   the  rest  fled.    After- 
sa  sunt:    cxteri  diffuge-    wards,    Q.    Fabius  Maximus 
runt.      Missus    ad  versus    was  sent  against  Ann  ibal  by  the 
Annibalem  postea  a  Ro-    Romans.  I^e  by  declining  battle j 
manis     Quintus     Fabius    broke  his  mettle  for  him,  and 
Maximus;  is  eum,   diffe-    soon  after,  having  got  an  ad- 
rendo  pugnam  ab  impe-    vantage  against  him,  routed 
tu  fregit:   mox    inventa   Jkim. 
oceasione  vicit» 


*  He  uras  not  gone  into  Spain  then,  as  our  anthor  say 3  ia  the  fore^ 
groing  chapter,  but  he  had  sent  his  brother  Cujeus  tiiither, 
t  It  foils  into  the  Po  on  the  south  sid«, 
jLivy«aysbutl5,00U. 


59 


EUTROPII 


10.   Qumgentesimo  et 
quadragesimo  anno  acon- 
dita  urbe, Lucius iEmilius, 
P.  Terentius  Varro  con- 
tra Annibalem  mittunlur, 
Fabioque  succedunt :  qui 
Fabius    ambos    Consulcs 
Tnonuit,ut  Annibalem  cal- 
lidum  et  impatientem  du- 
cem  non  aliter  vincerent, 
quam  prxlium  difterendo. 
Verum  cum  impatientia 
VarronisConsulis,conlra- 
dicente  Consule  altero,  a- 
pud    vicum,    qui    Cannae 
appellaiur,  in  Apulia  pug- 
natum  esset,  ambo  Con- 
sules  ab  Annibale  vincun- 
tur.  In  ea  pugna  tria  mil- 
iia      Afrorum     pereunl ; 
magna  pars  de   exercitu 
Annibalis  sauciatur;  nul- 
lo  tamen  Punico  bello  Ro- 
mani  graviusacccptisunt: 
periit  enim  in  eo  ^milius 
Paulus    Consul;    Consu- 
lares  et  Prxtorii  xx.  Se- 
natores  capti   aut   opcisi 


10.  In  the  ^  540th  year  from 
the    building   of  the   cityj    L, 
jEmilius    and    2\     Terentius 
Varro  are  sent  against  Annibal^ 
and  succeeded  Fabius :  ivhick 
Fahiu%  warned  \both   the  Con- 
suls that  they    could  not  other- 
wise   conquer  that   subtil  and 
imfiatient  general  than  by  wa- 
ving battle.      But  a  battle  be- 
ing fought  y  through  the  impa- 
tience   of    the    Consul  VartOy 
though  the  other  Consul  epposea 
it,  at  a  country  town^  which  is 
call'd  Ca7ina,  in  jiputia ;  both 
the  Consuls  were   overthrown 
by   AnnibaL      In   that    battle 
three  thousand  of  the  Africans 
art  lost,  a  great  part  of  Anni- 
bars  army  is  wounded ;  how- 
ever,   the    Romans  were    not 
more    roughly  handled  in  auy 
battle  with  the  Carthaginians : 
for  the  Consul  JBmilius  Pau- 
lus fell  in  it  ;  and   20   gentle- 
men that  had  betn  Consuls  and 
Prators ;    30    Sg?iators    were 
taken  or  slainy    besides    300 


f  He  should  have  said  537. 

X  He  did  not  address  himself  to  both  the  Consuls,  but  -ffimilius  only, 
the  other,  Varro,  who  was  but  a  butcher's  son,  but  had  raised  himself 
by  his  mettle  and  activity  to  the  Consulate,  he  knew  to  be  too  violently 
bent  upttn  lighting,  to  regard  any  advice  of  his  to  the  conti  ary.     Th« 
6vent  seems  to  prove  that  Fabius  had  a  thorough  knovledge  of  the  Ro- 
mans, and  the  enemy  they  had  to  deal  with,  and  therefore  that  his 
advice  was  well  grounded.     But  for  all  that,  the  Romans  w^re  so  far 
from  expressing  any  resentment  against  the  man,  who  seemed  by  hi» 
rashness  to  have  brought  this  terrible  stroke  upon  tliem,  that,  upon  his 
return  to  Rome,  he  was  met  by  all  degrees  of  people,  and  publicly 
thanked,  for  testifying  by  thus  facing  his  countr>'  again,  that  he  did 
not  despair  of  its  recovery  from  the  ill  condition  it  was  at  that  time  in, 
and  they  continued  to  give  him  a  command  in  their  armies  for  several 
years  together  after  this  ;  in  which  the  Roman  people  shewed  a  great-- 
B««s  tf  s«ul  rarely  to  be  found  in  lingle  persoAS, 


t* 


LIBER  in. 


51 


3fxx.  nobiliores  virl  ccc. 
militum  xl.  millia ;  equi- 
tum  tria  millia  et  quingen- 
ti ;  in  quibus  malis  nemo 
tamen  Romanorum  pacis 
mentionem  habere  digna- 
tus  est.  Servi,  quod  nun- 
ouam  ante,  manumissi,  £c 
milites  facti  sunt. 

11.   Post  eam  pugnam 
multae     Italix    civitates, 
quae  Romanis  paruerant, 
EC  ad  Annibalem  transtu- 
lerunt.     Annibal  Roma- 
nis obtulit,  ut  captivos  re- 
dimereni:     responsumq; 
€st   a  Senalu,  eos   cives 
non  esse  necessarios  qui, 
cum  armati  essent,  capi 
potuisseni.     Ille    omnes 
postea  variis  suppliciis  in- 
terfccit,   et   tre»   medio» 
aureorum  annulorumCar- 
thaginem   misit:   quos  e 
manibus  Equitum  Roma- 
norum, Senatorum,  et  mi- 
litum detraxerat,  Interca 
in  Hispania,ubi  frater  An- 
nibalis   Asdrubal  reman- 
serat  cum  magno  exerci- 
tu,   ut  eam   totam  Afris 
subigeret,  a  duobus  Scip- 
ionibus  Romanis  duclbus 
Tincitur;     perditque     in 


noblemen,  cud  40  thousand  sol- 
diers, three  thousand  five  hun- 
dred  horse.  In  the  midst  of 
which  losses  none  of  the  Ro^ 
mans  would  make  any  mention 
of  peace :  the  slaves,  which 
had  never  been  done  be/ore^ 
were  enfranchised  and  made 
soldiers, 

n.  After    that  battle  many 
cities  of  Italy,  which  had  been 
subject  to  the  Romans,  went  o* 
ver  to  Annibal,  Annibal  offered 
the  Romans  liberty  to  redeem 
the  prisoners  :    and  *  answer 
was  made  by  the  Senate,    that 
those  citizens  were  not  neces' 
sary,  who,    though    they  were 
armed,  could  be  tti ken  prisoners. 
He   afterwards  put  them  all  to 
death  with     various   tortures^ 
and  sent   ^three  modii  of  ^old 
rings   to    Caithage,    which  he 
had  taken  from  the  hands  of 
the  Roman  Knights,  Senators 
and    Soldiers.      In    the   mean 
time,  in  Spain,  where  the  bro» 
ther  of  Aiviibai  Asdrubal  had 
stayed  with  a  great  army,  to  re- 
duce  all  that  province  under 
the  Africans,    he  is  cotiquered 
by  the  two  Roman  generals,  the 
Scipios,  and  loses  in  that  battle 
35    thousand  men  :  oj  these  10 


♦  A  strange  kind  of  an  answer  in  such  sort  of  circumstances,  and 
which  shews  the  invincible  spirit  of  the  Romans  at  that  time. 

f  Livy  says  three  and  a  half,  a  vast  quantity,  which  gave  occasion, 
to  Pliny  to  conjecture  that,  at  that  time,  the  gold  nng  was  worn  by 
the  commoners  as  well  as  those  of  the  Equestrian  and  Senatorianorder, 
which  afterwards  was  cottfined  to  the  two  latter.  Sc«  Piiny,  b.  33 
c.  30. 


5'^ 


EUTROPII 


pugnaxxxv.  milliahomi-  thousand  are  taken^  35  thou- 

num,  ex  his  capiuntur  x  sand  are  slain:    12   thousand 

niillia,    occicluntur    xxv.  foot,  four  thousand  horsey  and 

Mittuntur  ei  a  Carthagi-  20   elefihants  are  sent  him  by 

nensibus   ad    reparandas  the   Carthaginians  to  recruit 

yires  xii.  millia  peditum,  his  army. 
iv.  millia  eqiiitum,  xx.  e- 
lephanti, 

13.  Anno  quarto  post-         12.  In  the  fourth  year  after 
quam  in  Italiam  Annibal    Annibal  came  into  Italy,   M. 
▼enit,    Marcus   Claudius    Claudius  MarceUua  the  Consul^ 
Marccllus    Consul    apud  fought  successfully  against  j^n. 
JVolam,   civitatem   Cam-    nibal  at  JVola,  a  city  of  Campa. 
paniffi,  contra  Annibalem    nia.     Annibal  seized ufion  ma, 
bene   pugnavit.    Annibal    ny  cities  of  the  Romans,  in  A, 
multas  civitates  Romano-   /i«//V7,  Calabria,  and  the  coun- 
rum  per  Apuliam,  Cala-    try  of  the  Brutii.    At  which 
bnam  et  Brutios  occupa-    time  likewise  Philifiy  King  of 
Vit:    quo  tempore  etiam    Macedonia  sent  messengers  to 
rex  Macedonia  Philippus    him,  promising  him  assistance 
ad    eum    legatos   misit,    against  the  Romans,  upon  this 
promittens  auxilia  contra    condition,  that  after  the   7?#. 
Romanos,  sub  hac  condi-    mans  should  be  conquered,  he 
tione,  ut  deletis  Romanis,    should  likewise  receive  assis- 
ipse  quoque  contraGracos    tancefrom  Annibal  against  the 
abAnnibaleauxiliaaccipe-    Greeks.    Wherefore  these  mes* 
ret.    Captisigiturlegatis    sengers  of  Philip  being  takeny 
Philippi,etrecognitP,  Ro-    and  the  matter  discovered,   the 
jnaniinMacedoniamMar-    Romans  ordered  M,   Valerius 
cum  Valerium  Lrcvinum    Larvinus  to  go  into  Macedonia^ 
ire  jusserunt;  in  Sardini-    Titus  Manlius  the  Proconsul 
am  Titum  Manlium  Pro-    into   Sardinia,  for  that  island 
consulem  :  Nam  etiam  ea    too  being  wheedled  by  Annibal^ 
solicitata  ab  Annibale  Ro-    had  forsaken  the  Romans. 
manos  deseruerat, 

13.  Ita  uno  tempore  13.  Thus,  at  one  time,  the 
quatuorlocispugnabatur;  imr  -.vas  carried  on  in  four 
in  Italia  contra  Anniba-  ^^v^vdA  places-,  in  Italy  against 
lem  ;  in  Hispania,  contra  Annibal;  in  Spain  against  his 
fratrem  ejus  Asdruba-  brother  Asdrubal;  in  Macedo^ 
lem;  in  Macedonia,  con-  nia  against  Philip;  and  in 
tra  Philippum  ;  in  Sardi-    Sardinia     against    the     Sar^ 


LIBER  jn. 


^3 


nia,  contra  Sardos,  &  alte- 
rum  Asdrubalem  Cartha- 
ginensem.  Is  a  Tito  Man- 
lio  Proconsule,qui  ad  Sar- 
diniam  missus  fuerat,  vi- 
vus  est  capius ;  occisa 
cum  eo  xii.  millia,  capii 
mille  quingenti ;  Sc  a  Ro- 
manis Sardinia  subacta. 
Manlius  victor  captivos  5c 
Asdtubalem  Roraam  re- 
portavit.  Interea  etiam 
Philippus  a  Lievino  in 
Macedonia  vincitur,  &  in 
Hispania  a  Scipionibus 
Asdrubal,  &  Mago  tcriius 
frater  Annibalis. 

14.  Decimo  anno  post- 
quam  Annibal  in  Italiam 
venerat,?.  Sulpicio,Cnao 
Fulvio  Consulibus,  Anni- 
bal usque  ad  quartum  mil- 
liarum  urbis  accessit,  e- 
quites  ejus  usque  ad  por- 
tas :  mox Consulum  metu, 
cumexercitu  venientium, 
Annibal  ad  Campaniam 
se  recepit.  In  Hispania  a 
fratre  Asdrubale  ambo 
Scipiones,  qui  per  niultos 
annos  viclores  fuerant,  in- 
terficiuntur;  exercitus  ta- 
men  integer  remansit ; 
casu  enim  magis  quam 
virtute  crant  decepti :  quo 
tempore  etiam  a  Consule 
Marccllo  Sicilix  magna 
pars  capta  est,   quam  le- 


dinians,  arid  the  other  AsdrU' 
bal,  a  Carthaginian.  He  iikls 
taken  alive  by  T.  Manlius  the 
Proconsul,  who  had  been  S€?it 
to  Sardinia:  there  were  slain 
with  /dm  12  thousand  men,  a 
thousand  fve  hundred  taken^ 
end  Sardinia  subdued  by  the 
Romans,  The  conqueror  Man- 
lius  brought  off  the  prisoners 
and  Asdrubal  to  Rome.  In  the 
mean  time  too  Philip  is  beat  by 
I.itvifius  in  Macedonia^  and  AS' 
drubal,  and  Mago^  the  third 
brother  of  Annibal^  by  the  -Sc/- 
pios  in  6y7a/;z. 

14.  In   the  *tenth  year  after 
Annibal  came  into  Italy,  when 
Publius  Sul/iicius,    and  Cnaus 
Fulvius  were  Consuls^  Annibal 
came  within  J^ur  miles  of  the 
city,  and  his  hoi'se    up  to  the 
very  gates;    but  presently  for 
fear  of  the  Consuls,  fwho  were 
coming  with  an  army,  Annibal 
withdrew  himself  into  Campa-. 
nia.  In  Spain  both  the  Scipios, 
who  had  been  victorious  for  se- 
veral years^  are  slain  by  Anni- 
bars  brother  Asdrubal:  yet  the 
army  remained  entire  ;  for  they 
had   been    trepanned   more  by 
chance  than  any  good  conduct 
of  the  enemy  ;  at  which  time 
to§,  a  great  part  of  Sicily  was 
reduced  by  the  Consul  Marcel' 
lus,  which  the  Africans  had  be- 


♦  It  should  be  the  eighth.  . 

f  They  did  actually  come  up  with  him,  and  fought  him ;  but  tna 
battle  v'as  »ot  decisive,  by  reason  of  a  gr*atump«it  tbatparud  them. 


54* 


EUTROPII 


nere  Afri  cosperant :  9c  ex 
nobilissima  uibe  Syracu- 
sana  prxda  ingens  pnelata 
est.  Lxviniis  in  Macedo- 
nia cum  Philippo  &  mullis 
Grjcciae  populis,  Screge  A- 
siac  Attalo,  amicitiam  fe- 
cit: &  ad  Siciliam  profect- 
us,  Annonem  quendam  Af- 
rorum  ducem  apudAgri- 
gentum    civitatem    cum 
ipso  oppidocepit,  eumque 
Romam  cum  captivis  no- 
tilibus  misit ;  xl.    civita- 
tcs  in  deditionem  accepit, 
xxvi.      expugnavit.      Ita 
omni  Sicilia  recepta,  Ma- 
cedonia  fracta,   cum  in- 
genti  gloria  Romam  re- 
gressus  est.    Annibal  in 
Italia    Cnaeum    Fulvium 
Consulem  subito  aggres- 
8US  cum  octo  millibus  ho- 
minum  interfecit. 

15.  Interea  ad  Hispan- 
ias,  ubi,  occisis  duobus 
Scipionibus,  nullus  Rg- 
manus  dux  erat,  Pub. 
Cornelius  Scipio  mittitur, 
filius  Publii  Scipionis,  qui 
ibidem  bellum  gesserat, 
anno3  natus  quatuor  & 
viginti,  vir  Romanorum 
omnium     &    sua    setate 


gun  to  take  fiossession  of:  and 

abundance  of  sfioil  was  carried 

before him'in  his  triumph, ro/ten 

from  *the  most  noble  city  ofSy» 

racuse,  Lxvinus  in  Macedonia 

made  an  alliance  with  ^Philifiy 

and    many   States  of  Greece^ 

and  Attains  the  King  of  jisia^ 

and  going  into  Sicily,  took  jlnno^ 

a  certain  general  of  the  Cartha* 

ginians,  at  the  city  of  Agrigen- 

turn,  with  the  town  itself,  and 

sent  him  to  JRome  with  other 

noble  prisoners:  he  took  in  40 

cities  upon  surrender,  and  26 

by  force.     Thus  having  rsco' 

vercd  all  Sicily,  and  hximbled 

Macedonia,   he   returned  with 

great  glory  to  Rome»    Annibai 

in  Italy  suddenly  falling  ufion 

the  Consul  Cnaeus  Fulvius,  kil" 

led  him   with    eight   thousand 

men, 

\S,In  the  mean  time  is  sent 
to  Spain,  where  after  the  two 
Scipios  were  slain,  there  was  no 
Roman  general,  Publius  Corne» 
lius  Scipio,  the  son  of  \\i?X  Pub' 
lius  Scipio  who  had  carried  on 
the  war  there,  fsur  and  twenty 
years  old,  almost  the  greatest 
man  of  all  the  Romans,  both  in 
his  own  age  and  the  fellowing 


*  The  city  was  defended  against  Marcellus,  one  of  the  greatest  ge- 
nerals the  Romans  tfien  had,  for  three  years  together,  by  the  wonder- 
&1  management  of  Archimedes,  the  greatest  mathematician  that  ever 
lived,  excepting  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  who  will  be  the  glory  of  his  coun- 
try till  time  shall  be  no  more. 

f  I'his  is,  I  fear,  a  mistake  ;  for  Livy  takes  no  notice  of  any  all-» 
Jasce  with  Philip,  though  he  doe«  of  the  rest, 


LIBER  III. 


55 


&  posteriori  tempore  fere 
primus.  Is  Carthaginem 
Hispaniae  capit,  in  qua 
omne  aurum  Scargentum, 
&  belli  apparatum  Afri 
habebant :  nobilissimos 
quoq  ;  obsides,  quos  ab 
Hispanis  acceperat :  Ma- 
gonem  etiam  fratrem 
Annibalis  ibidem  capit ; 
quern  Romam  cum  aliis 
mittit.  Romae  ingens  Ix- 
titia  post  hunc  nuntium 
fuit.  Scipio  Hispanorum 
obsides  parentibus  reddi- 
dit. Qua  re  omnes  fere  Hi- 
spani  ad  eum  uno  animo 
transierunt.  Postque  As- 
drubalem  Annibalis  fra- 
trem victumfugat,  &prai- 
dam  maximam  capit. 

16.  Interea  in  Italia 
Consul  Q.  Fabius  Max- 
imus  Tarentum  recepit : 
in  qua  ingentes  copia 
Annibalis  erant;  Sc  ibi 
etiam  ducem  Annibalis 
Carthalonemoccidit,  xxv. 
millia  captivorum  vendi- 
dit :  prxdam  militibus 
dispertivit,  pecuniam  ho- 
miiium  venditorum  ad 
fiscum  retulit.Tummultae 
civitates,  Romanorum 
qus  ad  Annibalem  transi- 
erant    prius,    rursus    se 


time»  He  takes  *  Carthage  in 
Spain,  in  which  the  Africans 
had  all  their  gold  and  silver^ 
and  ammiiniton  ;  and  noble  hos- 
tages too,  which  he  had  recei» 
ved  from  the  Spaniards:  he 
tak^es  in  the  same  place  likewise 
Mago  the  brother  of  Annibal, 
whom  he  sends  to  Rome  with 
others.  There  was  huge  joy 
at  Rome,  after  this  news*  Sci- 
pio restored  the  hostages  of  the 
Spaniards  to  their  parents» 
Upon  which  thing  almost  all 
the  Sfianiards  went  over  to  him 
with  one  consent.  And  after- 
wards he  put  to  flight  Asdrubal, 
the  brother  of  Annibal,  and  gets 
abundance  of  plunder. 


16.  /n  the  mean  time  in  Ita- 
ly, the  Consul  Q»  Fabius  Max- 
imus  recovered  Tarentum,  in 
which  were  a  great  number  of 
Annibal* s  troops:  and  there  he 
likewise  slew  a  general  of  Anni- 
bal'Sj  one  Cathaloi  he  sold  25 
thousand  prisoners,  unddivided 
the  plunder  amongst  his  soldiers 
but  brought  the  money  arising 
from  the  men  that  were  sold 
into  the  treasury.  Then  ma- 
ny cities  of  the  Romans,  which 
had  gone  over  to  Annibal  before^ 
surrendered  themslves  again  to 


*  This  was  called  Carthago  Nova,  now  Cartagena,  built  by  the  Car- 
thaginians. It  hes  in  that  part  of  Spain,  called  the  kingdom  of  Murcia^ 

f  Our  anthor  should  rather  have  used  the  word  arurium^fscus  being 
wed  after  Augustus'  time,  to  signify  the  Emperor's  eichequw,  a» 
«listiact  frtm  the  cerarium,  or  treasury  of  the  sute. 


LIBER  III. 


5r 


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Fabio  Maximo  reddide- 
runt.  Insequenti  anno 
Scipio  in  Hispania  egre- 
gias  res  t^git,  &  per  se,  & 
perfratrem  suumLuciiim 
Scipionem :  Ixx.  civitates 
recepit.  In  Italia  tamen 
male  pugnatum  est.  Nam 
Claudius  Marcellus  Con- 
gul  ab  Annibale  occisus  est, 

17.  Tertio  anno  post- 
quam  Scipio  ad  Hispani- 

^**am  profectus  fuerat  rur- 
sus  res  inclytas  gerit :  re- 
gem  Hispaniarum  magno 
pr»liovici*jnA|in|amicitiam 
accepit,  8c  primus  omni- 
um avictoobsidesnonpo- 
poscii. 

18.  Desperans  Anni- 
bal  Hispanias  contra  Sci- 
pionem diutius  p08se»re- 
tineri,  fratrem  suum  As- 
drubalem  ad  Italiamcum 
omnibus  copiis  evocavit. 
Is  vcniens  eodem  iiinere 
quo  etiam  Annibal  vene- 
rat,  a  Consulibus  Appio 
Claudio  Nerone,  &  Marco 
Livio  Salinatore,  apudSe- 
nam  Piceni  civitatem,  in 
insidias  compositas  in- 
cidit :  strenue  tamen  pui^- 
nans  occisuscst:  ingentes 
ejus  copixcaptxautinter- 
fectae  sunt:  magnum  pon- 
dus  auri  atque  argenti 
Romam  relatum.  Post 
hsc  Annibal  diffidere  jam 
de  belli  cocpit  eventu,  & 
Romania  mgens  animus 
accessiU     Itaque   Sc  ip!»i 


JPabius  Maximiis,  In  theJoUcW' 
trig  year  Scipio  fierf or med extra" 
ordinary  things  in  Spain^both  by 
himself  end  his  brother  L,uciu9 
Sci/iio;  he  took  in  70  cities.  Vet 
the  Rom-dns/ought  with  ill  suc- 
cess in  Italy :  for  the  Consul 
Claudius  Marcellua  wat  sUin 
by  jimiibaL 

17.  In  the  third  year  after 
Scipio  had  gone  to  S^iain,  he 
performs  again  glorious  thirigs» 
He  admitted  a  King  of  Spa  in  y 
afier  he  had  conquered  him  ina 
great  battley  to  an  alliance^  and 
was  the  first  of  all  who  demand- 
ed no  hostages  of  a  conquered 
enemy. 

18.  Annibal  despairing  that 
S/iain  could  be  kept  aiiy  longer 
against  Scipdo,  sent  for  his  bro- 
ther Asdrubal  to  Italy ^  with  all 
his  forces.  He  coming  the  same 
way  that  Annibal  too  had  come^ 
fell  into  an  ambuscade  laid  for 
him,  by  the  Consuls  Api/iius 
Claudius  A^ero,  and  Marcus  Li* 
vius  Sal  ina  t  or  y  at  Sena,  a  city 
of  Picene:    yet   he  was  slain 

fighting  stoutly:  his  great  for-- 
ces  wtre  either  taken  or  slain: 
a  vast  quantity  of  gold  andsil' 
•oer  was  carried  to  Rome,  Af- 
ter this,  Annibal  begun  now  to 
despair  of  the  event  of  the 
war,  and  great  courage  was  ad- 
ded to  the  Romans;  wherefore 
they  likewise  sent  for  Publius 
Cornelius  Sci/iio  out  of  Spain, 
He  came  to  Rome  with  great 
glory^ 


evocaverunt  ex  Hispania 
Publium  Cornelium  Scip- 
ionem. Is  Romam  cum 
ingenti  gloria  venit. 

19.  Quinto  CsecilioLu- 
cio  Valerio  Consulibus, 
omnes  civitates,  quae  in 
Brutiis  ab  Annibale  tene- 
bantur,  Romanis  se  tradi- 
derunt. 

20,  Anno  xiv.  post- 
quam  in  Italiam  Annibal 
venerat,  Scipio,  qui  mul- 
ta  bene  in  Hispania  ege- 
rat,  Consul  est  factus,  Sc 
in  Africam  missus,  cui 
viro  divinuni  quiddam 
inesse  existimabatur,  adeo 
ut  putaretup  cum  Numin- 
ibus  habere  sermonera. 
Is  in  Africa  contra  Anno- 
nem  ducem  Afrorum  pug- 
nat,  exercitum  ejus  inter- 
ficit.  Secundo  praelio  cas- 
tra  cepit,  cum  quatuor 
millibus  &  quingentis  mi- 
litibus,  xi.  millibus  oc- 
cisis.  Syphacem  Numidise 
regem,  qui  se  Afris  con- 
junxerat,  capit,  &  castra 
ejus  invadit.  Syphax  cum 
nobilissimis  Numidis,  & 
infinitis  spoliis,  a^Scipi- 
one  Romam mittitur:  qua 
re  audita,  omnis  fere  Ita- 


19.  Quintus  Cacilius,  and 
Lucius  Valerius  being  Consuls, 
all  the  cities  which  were 
possessed  by  Annibal  amongst 
*the  Brutii,  submitted  them" 
selves  to  the  Romans, 

20.  In  the  \Mh  year  after 
Annibal  had  come  into  Italy^ 
Scifiio,  who  had  done  mariy 
things  successfully  in  Spain^ 
was  made  Consul,  and  sent  into 
Africa;  in  which  rnan  it  wat 
supposed  there  was  something 
divine^  so  that  he  was  thought 
to  have  converse  with  the  Gods» 
He  engages  in  Africa  against 
Anno,  general  of  the  Africans^ 
and  cuts  off  his  army,  in  a 
great  measure.  In  a  second 
battle  he  took  his  ctimp,  with 

four  thousand  and  five  hundred 
of  his  soldiers,  1 1  thousand^  be- 
ing slain.  He  takes  Syphax^ 
King  of  J^umidia,  who  had 
joined  himself  with  the  Afri- 
cans, and  ^seizes  his  camp% 
Syphax  with  the  most  noble  JVu- 
midians  and  an  infinite  deal  of 
spoil  is  sent  by  Scipio  to  Rome; 
which  thing  being  heard  of,  aU 
most  all  Italy  forsakes  AnnibaU 


*  Our  author  is  here  mistaken,  if  the  Librarians  Lave  done  hi» 
justice.  It  was  not  the  Brutii,  but  the  Lutfani,  that  submitted  them- 
sches  at  this  time  to  the  Romans. 

1 1  canBot  but  approve  of  the  correction  of  this  passage  by  Tanoquil 
le  Fevre,  who  reads  incendit  for  invadit,  tor  he  did  not  take  the  camp, 
)*(tt  burnt  it. 


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LIBER  HI. 


5t 


lia  Annibalem  deserit : 
ipse  a  Carthaginensibus 
in  Africam  redire  jubetur, 
quam  Scipio  vastabat. 

2 1.  Ita  anno  xvii.  ab  An- 
nibale  Italia  hberata  est, 
quam  flens  dicitur  reliquis- 
se.  Legati  Carihaginen- 
sium  pacem  a  Scipione 
petierunt ;  ab  eo  ad  Sen- 
atum  Romam  missi  sunt : 
xlv.  dies  his  inducixdatx 
suntquousque  Romam  ire 
&  regredi  possent :  xxx. 
millia  pondo  argenli  ab 
his  accepta  sunt.  Senatus 
ex  arbitrio  Scipionis  pa- 
cem jusait  cum  Carthagi- 
nensibus fieri.  Scipio  his 
condiiionibus  dedit,  ne 
amplius  quam  xxx.  naves 
haberent  quingcnta  mil- 
lia pondo  argenti  darent, 
caplivos  &  perfugas  red- 
derent. 

22.  Interim  Annibale 
▼eniente  ad  Africam ;  pax 
turbata  est;  multa  hosiilia 
ab  Aftis  facta  sunt.  Le- 
gati tamen  eorum  ex  ur- 
be  venientes,  a  Romunis 
capti  sunt,  &  jubtnte  Sci- 
pione dimissi.  Annibal 
quoque,frequentibus  prxe- 
liis  victus  a  Scipione,  pe- 
liit  etiam  ipse  pacem. 
Cum  ventum  esset  ad  col- 
loquium, iisdem  condiii- 
onibus data  est  quibus 
prius:  addita  quingentis 
millibus  pondo  argenti,  c. 
millia  librarum  propter 


He  is  ordered  by  the  Cartha^i^ 
niana  to  return  to  Africa^  which 
Scipio  laid  waste» 

3 1 .  Thus  Italy  ivas  deliver- 
ed from  Annibal  in  the  17 th 
year  of  the  war,  which  he  is 
said  to  have  left  weefiing.  Am- 
bassadors of  the  Carthaginians 
desired  peace  of  Sci/iia;  they 
were  sent  by  him  to  Rome  to 
the  Senate.  Truce  was  granted 
them  for  45  days  till  they  could 
go  to  Rome  and  come  back;  30 
thousand  pounds  of  silver  were 
received  from  them»  The  Se* 
nate  ordered  a  peace  to  be  made 
with  the  Carthaginians^  accoT' 
din^  to  the  pleasure  of  Scipio» 
Scipio  granted  it  upon  thtst 
terms,  that  they  should  have  ns 
more  than  30  ships^  should  give 
500  thousand  pounds  of  si  her  ^ 
and  restore  the  prisoners  and 
deserters, 

22.  In  the  mean  time^  upon 
Annibal's  coming  to  AJrica^ 
the  peace  was  interrupted)  and 
many  hostilities  committed  by 
the  Africans:  Yet  their  Am- 
bassadors, as  thty  were  coming 
from  the  city  Rome,  were  ta- 
ken by  the  Romans^  and  by 
Scipio's  order  dismissed»  Anni- 
bal too  being  conquered  in  seV' 
eral  battles  by  Scipio^  begged 
Peace  hitnself  too.  When  thty 
came  to  a  conference  upon  it, 
it  was  granted  upon  the  same 
terms  as  bejore  ;  only  a  hun- 
dred thousand  libra  were  added 
19  the  five  hundred  thousand 


wovam  pcrfidlam.  Car-  pound  weight  of  silver  for  their 
thaginensibus  conditiones  late  treachery.  These  articles 
displicuerunt,  jusserunt-  displeased  the  Carthaginians^ 
que  Annibalem  pugnare.  and  they  ordered  Annibal  (§ 
Infertur  a  Scipione,  8c  fight.  The  war  is  carried  by 
Massinissa  alio  rege  Nu-  Scipio^  and  Massinissa,  another 
midarum,  qui  amicitiam  King  of  the  A'umidians,  wha 
cum  Scipione  feccrat,  had  made  an  alliance  with  Set- 
Carthagini  bellum.  An-  pio,  up  te  Carthage  itstU,  An- 
nibal  tres  exploratores  nibal  sent  three  spies  to  Scipio' s 
ad  Scipionis  castra  misit :  camp,  whom  being  seized,  Sci- 
quos  captog  Seipio  cir-  pio  ordered  to  be  led  round  the 
cumduci  per  castra  jussit,  camp,  and  t/ie  whole  army  /# 
oslendiquc  eis  tolum  ex-  be  shewn  thenij  and  then  a  din- 
ercitum;  mox  etiam  pran-  ner  to  be  given  them^  and  dis- 
dium  dari  dimiltique,  ut  missed,  that  they  might  tell  An- 
renunciarent  Annibali  mbml  whet  they  had  seen  a- 
quae  apudRomanos  vidis-  mongst  the  Romans, 
sent. 

23.     Interea    pralium        23.  In  the  mean  time  a  bat» 
ab  utroque  duce  instruc-    tie  was  prepared  for  by  both 
tum   est,  quale    vix  ulla    generals,  such  as  scarce  ever 
memoria  fuit :  quum  pe-    was  in  any  age;  when  these 
ritissimi  viri  copias  suas    most  skilful  men  drew  out  their 
ad      bellum      educerent.    troops    to   the  fight,      Scipio 
Scipio  victor  recedit,  pene    comes  off  conqueror,     Annibal 
ipso  Annibale  capto  :  qui    himself  beitig  well  nigh  taken; 
primum    cum    multis  e-    who  got  off  at  first  with  many 
quitibus,  deinde  cum  xx.    horse,   then  with  twenty,  and 
postremo  cum  qualuor  e-    at  last  with  but/owr.    20  thou- 
▼asit.    Invcnta  in  castris    sand  pounds   of    silver   were 
Annibalis  argemi  pondo  found  in  AnnibaVs  camfi,  and 
XX.  millia,  auri  octingen-    eight  hundred  of  gold,  with  o- 
ta,  cactera  supellectili  co-    ther  baggage  in  great  plenty, 
piosa.     Post  id  certamen    After  that  battle  a  peace  was 
pax  cum  Carthagincnsi-    made  with  the   Carthaginians, 
bus  facta  est.    Scipio  Ro-    Scifiio  returned  to  Rome,  and 
mam  rediit,     &    ingenti    triumphed    in    great     glory^ 
gloria  triumpharit,  atque    and  begun  to  be  called  from 
Africanus  ex  eo  appcUari    thence  Africanus,     The  second 
cosptu»  est»     Finem  ac-    Carthaginian  war  had  an  end 


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*1 9  years  after  it  begun» 


cepit  secundum  Punicum 
bellum,  post  annum  no- 
num  decimum  quam  coe- 
perat. 

*  A  period  was  put  to  this  war  in  its  18th  year,  that  is,  552  fro» 
the  building  of  Rome,  just  200  years  before  Christ. 


EUTROPII 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORIC  ROMANCE. 


^:® 


LIBER  IV, 


HTRANSACTO  Punico 
bello    sequutum    est 
Macedonicum  contraPhi- 
lippum  regem. 

2.  Quingentesimo  £c 
quinquagesimoprirao  an- 
no ab  urbe  condita,  T. 
Quintius  Flaminius  ad- 
versus  Philippum  regem 
tnittitur :  res  prospere 
gessit ;  pax  ei  data  est  his 
legi  ?us,  ne  Gra^cix  civita- 
tibiis.  quas  Romani  con- 
tra euiii  defenderanl,  bel- 
lum inferretjU^  captivos  Sc 
transfugas  reddevit, quin- 
quaginta  solum  naveb  ha- 
ebret,  reliquas  Romanis 
redderet ;  per  annos  de- 
cem  quaterna  millia  pen- 


A 


.Fr£Ii  the  Carthaginian 
t^ar  was  endedj  the  *Macedo- 
Tiian  Jollowed  against  King 
Philip. 

2.    t  In  the  55\st  year  from 

the  building  of  the    city,    \  T, 

Quintius  Flaminius   is  sent  a- 

gainst  King  Philip,  Hemanag. 

ed  his  affairs   buccessfully:  a 

peace  was  granted  him  upon 

these  terms,  that  he  should  not 

make  'u^ar  upon    the   cities  of 

Greece  which  the  Romans  h  ad 

defended  against  him,    that  he 

should     restore    the    prisoner* 

and  deserters,  should  have  only 

50  ships,    and   deliver    up  the 

rest    to    the    Romans ;    should 

pay  for  ten  years,  four  thousand 

pound   voeight   of  silver,    and 

give  his  son  Demetrius  as   an 


*  The  Macedonian  war  begun  13  years  before  the  conclusion  of  th« 
Carthaginian. 

f  Liry  says  in  the  350th. 

X  T.  Quintius  Flaminius  wha  not  the  first  commander  tb;it  was  sent 
into  Macedonia  after  tke  end  of  the  Pujiick  war,  but  the  third. 


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tlo  argenli  prxstarct,  !c 
obsidem  daret  filium  su- 
um  Demetrium.  Titus 
Quintius  etiam  Lacedac- 
moniis  intulit  belUim ; 
ducem  eonim  Nabidem 
vicil :  &  quibiis  voluit 
conditionibus,  in  fidem 
accepit  :  ingenii  gloria 
duxit  ante  curruni  nobi- 
lissimos  obsidcs,  Deme- 
irium  Philippi  filium,  8^ 
a\rmenem  Nabidis. 

3.  Transaclo  bello  Ma- 
cedonico.sequutum  estSy- 
riacum  contra  Antic- 
chum  regem,  P.  Cornelio 
Scipione,  M.  Acilio  Gla- 
brione  Consulibus.  Huic 
Antiocho  Annibal  se 
junxerat,  Carthapjinem 
patriam  suam,  ne  Roma- 
nistraderetur,  relinquens. 
M.  Aciliu3  Glabrio  in 
Achaia  pugnavit  bene. 
Castra  regis  Antiochi 
nociurna  pugna  capta 
sunt :  ipse  fugatur.  Phi- 
lippe quia  contra  Antic- 
chum  Rcmanis  auxilio 
fuisset,  fdiu.s  Demetrius 
redditus  est. 

4.  L.  Cornelio  Scipio- 
ne, C  Lxlio  Consulibus, 
Scipio  Af;  iccinus  fratri  suo 
L.  Cornelio  Scipioni  Con- 
suli  legaius  contra  Antio- 
chum  profcctus  est.  An- 
nibal, (pii  cum  Antiocho 
crat,  nuvaii  prxlio  victus 
est.     Ipse  pustea  Antio- 


IiQsta^e,  ?'.  Quhit.us  likcnvisr 
made  vjcir  u/ion  the  Lacedano^ 
niajis<i  conquered  their  prince 
J\'abisy  and  admitted  him  to  a 
peace  iipo?i  ivhat  terms  he 
thought  Jit  ;  and  led  in  great 
glory,  before  his  chariot  the 
most  noble  hostages,  Demetrius^ 
the  son  of  Philiji,  and  Jlrmenes 
the  son  of  Aabis, 


3.  After  the  Maccdoiiian 
Tjar  Tjas  ended,  the  Syrian  fol- 
lowed against  King  Jintiochusi 
when  Publius  Cornelius  Sci- 
fiio  and  Marcus  .icdius  Gla- 
brio were  Consuls,  Annibal  had 
joined  himself  to  this  Antiochus, 
quitting  his  native  fdace  Car- 
thage, lest  he  should  be  deliver- 
ed u/i  to  the  Romans.  M,  Aci- 
lius  Glabrio  fought  successfully 
in  Achaia,  The  camp  of  King 
Antiochus  was  taken  in  a  battle 
by  night  ;  he  himself  is  forced 
to  fly»  Demetrius  his  son  was 
returned  to  Philip,  because  he 
had  been  assisting  to  the  Ro- 
inans  against  Antiochus, 

4-  /v.  Corjielius  Scipio  and 
C.  La'lius  being  Consuls,  Scipio 
AfricaniLS  went  as  Heutcnant. 
to  his  brother  L.  Cornelius 
Scipio  the  Consul,  against  A)u 
tiochus,  Annibal,  who  was  with 
Ar.tiochus,  was  conquered  in  a 
buttle  by  sea.  Afterwards  A?!- 
tiochus  himself  was  routed  in 
a  great  battle  by  the  Consul  C, 


LIBER  IV. 


63 


ciuis   circa     Sipylum    & 
Magnesiam  Asix   civita- 
tem,  a  Consule  Cornelio 
Scipione    ingenti    prjclio 
fusus    est.      Auxilio  fuit 
liomanis  in  ea  pugna  Eu- 
nienes,  Aitali  regis  frater, 
(|ui  Eumeniam  in  Phry- 
t^'ia   condidit.     Quinqua- 
t;inta  millia  peditum,  iv. 
niillia  equitum  eo  certa- 
mine  ex  parte    regis  oc- 
oisa  sunt.    Turn  rex  An- 
tiochus pacem  petit,  qu.-c 
iisdem  conditicnibus  da- 
tur  a  Senalu,  quamquam 
victo,  quibus   ante  oifere- 
batur,   ut   ex    Euro  pa  &c 
Asia    recederet,      atque 
intra  Taurum  se  coniinc- 
rct;  X.  millia  talentorum, 
£c  xx.  obsides  pra^beret : 
A[ii:ibaiem  concitatorem 
belli  dederet.  Eumeni  re- 
gi  donutx  sunt  omnes  A- 
six  civitatcs,  quas  Antio- 
chus   bello     perdiderat : 
Sc  Rljodiis  qui   auxilium 
Romania    contra    regem 
Antiochum  tulerant,  mul- 
tx    urbes  concessx  sunt, 
Scipio  Romam   redit,  in- 
genti gloiia  triumphavit ; 
Momen  &  ipse,  ad  imita- 
Uonem  fratiis.      Asiatici 
accepit,  quia  Asiam  vice- 
rat  :  sicuti    frater    ipsius, 
propter    Africa m     domi- 

*  A  mourrtaiii  of  Lydia,  a  province  of  Asia  Miuof. 

t  A  mountain  that  takes  its  rise  from  the  north  side  of  Cilicia,  and 
itrerclies  from  tbcace  through  the  njiddk  of  Asia,  as  far  as  the 
ladiei. 


Scipio,     about    *  Si/iylus,    and 
Magjiesia,     a    city    of  Asia  : 
liumenes  the  brother  of  King 
At  talus,  who  built  Ewnenia  in 
Phrygia,  was  assisting  to    the 
Romans    i?i    that    battle  :     50 
thousand  foot  and  four   thou* 
sa?id  horse  were    slain    in  that 
fight  on  the  King's  side.    Then 
King  Antiochus  desires   peace, 
wh ich  is  granted  h i  m ,    though 
conquered,  upon  the  name  terms 
on  which   it  was  cff'ered  before 
by  the  Senate,    that  he  should 
withdraw  out  of  Europe   and 
Asia,  arid  confine  himself  with- 
in t  Tuurus,  give  ten  thousand 
talents  a?id  20  hostages;  and 
surrender  up  Annibal,  the  rais- 
er of  the  war.     All  the    cities 
of  Asia  were    given  to    Kij!_:^ 
Plumenes,  which  Antioclius  had 
lost  in    the   war ;    arid   in  .my 
cities  were  granted  to  the  Rho- 
dians^  who  hud  given  assistance 
to    the    Romans   ayainst  Kinp 
Antiochus,     Scipio  returned  to 
Rome,  and  triumphed  in  great 
glory  :  and  he  too,  in  imitation 
of  his  brother,  to'^/c   the   7iame 
of  Asiatic  us,    because   he   had 
Conquered  Asia  ;  as  his  brother, 
for  the  conquest  of  Africa,  was 
called  Africanus, 


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EUTROPH 


tarn,   Africanus    appella- 
baiur. 

5.  Spurio  Posthumio 
Albino,  Q.  Marcio  Philip- 
pe Consulibus,  M.  Ful- 
vius  de  iEtolis  triumpha- 
vit.  Annibal,  qui  victo 
Antiocho,  ne  Romanis 
traderetur,  ad  Prusiam 
Bithynix  regem  fugerat ; 
repetilus^  etiam  ab  eo 
est  per  Titum  Quin- 
tium  Flaminium:  et,  cum 
tradendus  esset  Romanis, 
verenum  bibit,  et  apud 
Libyssam  in  finibus  Ni- 
comediensiura  sepultus 
est. 

6.  Philippo  rege  Mace- 
donia mortuo,  qui  et  ad- 
verhum  Ronmanos  bellum 
j^esscrat,  et  postea  Ronna- 
uis  contra  Antiochum 
puxiliuna  tulerat,  filius 
ejus  Perseus  in  Macedo- 
nia rebcllavit,  ingentibus 
copiis  ad  bellum  paratis. 
Nam  adjiitores  habebat 
Cotyn  Thracix  regem,  et 
lllyrici  regem  Gentium 
i^omine.  Romanis  autcm 
in  auxilium  erant  Eume- 
nes  Asia;  rex,  Ariarathes 
Cappadociac,  Antiochus 
Syrix,  Ptolemsjus  -figyp- 
ti,  Massinissa  Numidiae. 
Prusias  autem  rex  Bithy- 
nisc,  quanquam  sororem 
Persei   uxorem    haberet, 


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65 


5.  S/iuriu9  Posthumius  M' 
biJius  and  Q.  Marcius  Fhilifi* 
fius  behig  Consuls^  M,  Fulvi» 
us  triwnfihed  over  the  f.S/o- 
lians,  .4nnibal^  who  d^hitv  jilt' 
tiochus  was  conquered^  had  fled 
to  Prusias,  Kiiig  of  Bithyniay 
that  he  might  not  be  delivered 
u/i  to  the  Romans,  was  demon- 
ded  of  him  too  by  T,  Quint iu» 
Flaminiu*  ;  and  when  he  was  tj 
have  been  delivered  up  to  the 
Romans,  he  drank  pohon,  and 
was  buried  at  Libyssa,  in  the 
country  of  the  Kicomedianst 

6.  Philifi,  King  of  Macedo» 
nia  being  dead,    who  too  had 
carried  on  a  war  against  the 
Romans,   and  had  afterwarda 
given  assistance  to  the  Romans 
against  Antiochus  ;  his  son  Per- 
seus   rebelled    in   Macedonia, 
having  firovidcd  great  forces 
for  the  war.    For  he  had  f9r 
his  assistants  Cotys  the  King  of 
Thrace,  and  the  King  of  Illyri* 
cum    Gentius    by  name»    Fu- 
menes^King  ofAsia^  Ariarathes 
of   Cappadocia,    Antiochua    of 
Syria,     Ptolemy,     of  Egypt, 
Alassinifsa  ofMinmidia,  wert- 
assistant  to  the  Romans,    But 
Prusias,  King  of  Bilhynia,  al- 
though   he    had   the  sister  of 
Perseus  to  wife,behaved himself 
as  neuter  betwixt  both  parties. 


utrisquc  sc  xquum  prx- 
buit.  Dux  Romanorum 
P.  Licinius  Consul  est  a 
rege  gravi  prxlio  victus  : 
neque  tamen  Romani 
quamquam  superati,  regi 
pelenti  pacem  prxstare 
voluerunt,  nisi  his  condi- 
tionibus,  ut  se  &  suos  Se- 
natui  Sc  Populo  Romano 
dcderet,  Mox  missus  con- 
Ira  eum  Lucius  iEmilius 
Paulus  Consul,  &  in  Illy- 
ricum  C.  Anicius  Pr?etor, 
contraCentium.Sed  Gen- 
tius facile  uno  praelio  vic- 
tus,mox  sededidit.  Mater 
ejus  &  uxor,  &  duo  filii, 
iraier  quoque  ejus,  simul 
in  potcstatem  RomaRor- 
um  vcnerunt.  Ita  belle 
intra  dies  xxx.  perfecto. 
aiite  cognitum  est  Genti- 
um victum,  quam  cceptum 
bellum   nunciareiur. 

7.  Cum  Perseo  autem 
.firailius  Paulus  Consul 
lertio  nonas  Septembris 
dimicavit,  vicitque  eum, 
XX.  minibus  peditum  ejus 
occisis ;  equitatus  cum 
regti  fuit  integer,  Roman- 
01  um  c.  mili'cs  amissi 
sunt:  uibes  Macedonix 
omnes,  quas  rexteimerat, 
Romanis  se  dediderunt : 
ipse  rex,  cum  de^creretur 
ab  amicis,    venit  in  Pauli 


The  Ca?isul  P.   Licinius,  gen- 
eral of  the  Romans,    was  beat 
by  the  Kliig  in  a  great  battle. 
j\'or    yet   vould  the    Romans, 
though     conquered,     grant    a 
jieace  to  the  King  deairing  ity 
but  upon  these   terms,    that  he 
should    surrender  himself  and 
subjects  to  the  Senate  and  peo- 
ple of  Rome,     Soon  after,    the 
Consul  Lucius   JEmilius  Pau- 
lus was    sent  againat  him,  and 
C,  Anicius    the  Prcetor,     ijito 
Illyricum      against     Gentius, 
But  Gentius    being  easily  con- 
quered in  one  battle,   presently 
surrendered  himself.    His  mo^ 
ther,    and  wife,  and  two  sonsy 
his  brother  too,    came  all  toge- 
ther into  the  hands   cf  the  Ro- 
mans,  Thus  the  wmr  being  fin- 
ished within  30    days,  it  was 
known   that   Gentius  was  con- 
quered before    the   news   was 
carried   to    Rome,    that     the 
war  was  beguji, 

7.  But  JEmilius  Paidus  the 
Consul  engaged  with  Perseus 
on  ^ihe  3d  before  the  JVones  of 
September,  and  defeated  him, 
killing  20  thousand  of  his  foot : 
the  horse  with  the  king  was  un- 
touched t  a  hundred  soldiers  cf 
the  Romans  were  lost.  All  the 
cities  of  Macedonia,  which  the 
Kijig  had  had,  ^surrendered 
themselves  to  the  Ro^nans  :  the 
King  himself  being  forsaken  by 
his  friends,  came  into  the  pow- 


f  The  /Etolians  were  a  people  of  Greece,  ia  <he  we*t   parts   M 
Achaia. 


*  That  is  the  3d  of  September,  for  the  Nones  of  that  month   were 
the  6th. 

r  3 


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potestatem :    seel   honor- 
em  ei  ^Emilius  non  quasi 
viclo  habuit ;  nam  £c  vol- 
cntem   sibi  ad  pedes  ca- 
dere   non  permisit;    sed 
juxta  se  in  sella  colloca- 
vit.  Macedowibus  &  llly- 
riis  hscc  leges  dalx  sunt, 
ut  liberi  essent,    &  dimi- 
dium   eorum  tributorum 
prxstarent,    qux  regibus 
praestitissent,  utapparer- 
et    populum    Romanum 
pro  «quitate  magis  quam 
pro     avariiia    dimicare ; 
atque  in  conventu  infini- 
torum  populorum  Faiilus 
hacc  pronuntiavit,  8c  Icga- 
tiones    multarum  genti- 
um,  qux   ad  eum   vene- 
lant,     magnilicentissimo 
pavit     convivio,     dicens, 
ejusdem  hominis  esse  de- 
bere  &  bello  vincere,  & 
convivii  apparatu  elegan- 
tem  esse. 

S.  Mox  septuaginta  ci- 
viiates  Epiri,  quae  rebel- 
Iarant,cepit:  pixdam  mi- 
litibus  diitribuit:  Ro- 
man  cum  ingenti  pom  pa 
rediitin  nave  Pcrsei,  qux 
inuhltatx  magnitudinis 
fuisse  tiadiiur,  adeo  ut 
xvi.  ordines  habuisse  di- 
caturrcmoriim.  Trium- 
phavit  auiem  magnilicen- 
tissime  in  cunu  aureo, 
cum  duobus  fdiis  ulroque 
latere  astantibus.  Ducti 
sunt  ante  currum  duo  rc- 
giifilii,  £v   ipsu   Perseus, 


er  of  Paulas,     But  JSmuus 
paid  him  a  respect,  not   as  if 
he  had  been   conquered:  for 
he  did  not  suffer  him^  though 
desirous  to  throw  himself  at  his 
feet,  but  placed  him  in  a  chair 
by  himself    These  terms  were 
g-rantcd  to  the  AlacedoTiians  and 
Illyrians,   that  they    should  be 
free,  a?id  pay  half  the  tribute 
which  they  had  paid  to  their 
Kings,  that     it    might    appear 
that  the  Roman  people  fought 
more  /or  equity  than  avarice, 
^nd     Paulus    declared    these 
things  in  an  assembly  of  an  in- 
finite  number  of  people  ;  and 
entertained,  in  a  most  splendid 
feast,  the  ambassadors  of  many 
nations  which  had  come  to  him, 
saying,  that  it  ought  to  be  the 
quality  of  the  same  man,  both 
to  conquer  in   war,  and   to  be 
handsome  in  his  entertainments. 


8.   Soon  after  he  reduced  70 
cities  cf  F.pire,  that  had  rebeU 
led,  and  divided   the  plunder 
amongst    his    soldiers;  he    re- 
turned    to    Pome    in    mighty 
pomp,    in    a  ship  of  Perseus' 
which  is  said  to  have  been  of  an 
unusual   bigness,  so  that   it  is 
reported  to  have  had  1 6  banks 
of  oars.      Jnd  he    triumphed 
mof^t  splendidly  in  o golden  cha- 
riot, with  his  two  sons  standing 
on    each  side  of  him      There 
were  led  before  his  chariot  the 
two  sons  of  the  king  and  Per- 
S€Ui  himself y  45  years  old,    jij- 


LIBER  IV. 


er 


xlv.  annos  natus.  Poat 
eum  etiam  C.  Anicius  de 
lllyriis  triumphavit:Gen- 
tius  cum  fratre  8c  filiis  an- 
te currumxluctus  est.  Ad 
hoc  spectaculum  m.ilta- 
rum  gentium  rege:  Ro- 
mam  venerunt  :  mtcr  ali- 
os etiam  venit  Attulus  at- 
que Eumeues  Asix  regcs, 
atque  Prusias  BJLhyiiix  : 
magno  honore  accepii 
sunt,  &  permittenie  Se- 
natu  dona  qux  attulerant, 
in  Capiiolio  posuerunt. 
Prusias  etiam  filium  suum 
Nicomedem  Senatui  com- 
mendavit. 

9.  Insequenti  anno  Lu- 
cius Memmius  in  Hispa- 
nia  bene  pugnavit.  Mar- 
cellus  postea  Consul  res 
ibidem  prospere  gessit. 

10.  Tertium  dcinde 
bellum  contra  Carthagi- 
nem  suscipiiur  dc.  £c  al- 
tero  annoabuibecondita, 
L.  Manlio  Censorino,  8c 
Marco  Manlio  Consuli- 
bus,  anno  li.  postquam 
secundum  Punicum  bel- 
lum transaclum  erat.  Hi 
profecli  Carthaginem  op- 
pugnaverunt.  Contra  eos 
Asdrubal  du^  Carthagi- 
nensium  dimicabat.     Fa- 


ter  him  too  C  Anicius  triumph^ 
ed  over  the  Illyrians,  Gentius, 
with  his  brothrr  and  his  so?is 
wrs  led  before  his  chariot,  *  The 
K'u^l.i  of  several  nations  came 
to  Rome  tu  this  sight ;  amongst 
others  came  Attains  and  Eume- 
:ics,  K::g^  of  Ajia,  and  Pru- 
sias of  Bithijnia:  they  were  en- 
ter (ained  with  great  hoiiQur^ 
and  by  the  pet  )\iission  of  the 
Senate,  deposited  the  present* 
they  had  brought  in  the  Capitol, 
Prusias  likewise  recommended 
his  son  jVicomedes  to  the  Se- 
nate, 


0,  In  the  following  year  Lu- 
cius Mummius  fought  success- 
fully in  Spain,  Afterwards 
Marccllus  the  Consul  manu;-n-d 
matters  successfully  in  the  same 
place. 

10.   Then  a  third  war  is  un- 
dertaken against  Carthage,   in 
the  year  from  the  building  of 
the  city  toOl,  Lucius  Ma'r.lius 
Cetisorinus,  and  Marcus  Man- 
lius  being  Consuls,  in  the  year 
5  I ,  after  the  second  Punic  war 
had  been  ended.      These  going 
to  Caj-tht/gc,  attacked  it,     As- 
drubal, general  of  the  Cartha- 
ginians, fought  against  them, 
Pamea,  another  general,  com- 
manded the  horse  of  the   Car- 


^  rh:s  ,s  a  mistake  j  s-^Gral  designed  so  to  do,  and  nmoi-gst  them 
Eumenes  ;  but  because  he  had  stood  «enter,  the  liomans  had  no  mind 
fee  should,  and  therefore  passed  a  law,  ne  c-a  reg^  R^mam  venire  itccr^t. 
i^rusias,  indeed  aUer  the  triumph  wa*>  civilly  rcceivwl. 

(OUi  it  fhou:di;e. 


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EUTROPll 


mea  diix   alius    eqiiitatui     t/uginiaiis»    At  that  time  ^Sci- 
prxcrat      Carthai^iiiensi-    /?/o,   grcnchon  of  Sci/iio  Afri- 
um.     Scip'.o  lUic,  Snpi-    cavus  served  there  as  a  \Tri' 
O'iUS  African"  ncpos,  Tri-     ^n    ■    <"  ■'L/ioiri  tha-e  luas  great 
bw..u*>  iiii  ni  tuibat,  ciijus    ^  ^  '  ^  -^  reverence  amongst  all. 
ap'.doniutR    v^-ens  mclus     ro?    it  was  doih  very  forward 
&  revcreulia  eral.    Nam   f'jr  Jighting,  and  uus  reckoned 
&  parutissimus   ad  dimi-    very      prudent,       IVhereforey 
caiulum,  &consuUibsimus    many  things  nvhere  iuccessfully 
habc'batnr.      Ilaque     per    inaiiagtd  by  him:    nor  did  As^ 
eu'Ti  multaprosperegesta    drubal  or    Famca    avoid    any 
sunt:      ne(jue    cjuidquam     thing   more  than  to  engage  in 
magis    vel    Asdrubal   vel  fight  against   that  part  of  the 
Famea     vitabant,    quam    Romans  where  Scipio fought, 
contra   earn  Romanovum 
partem  puj^jiiam  commit- 
lere,  ubi   Scipio  diniica- 
bat. 

11-.  Per  idem  tempus  11.  About  the  same  time 
Massinibsa  rex  Numida-  Mass  inissa,  King  of  the  Aumi- 
rum,  per  annos  sexaginta  dians,  an  ally  oj  the  Roman 
fere  amicus  populi  Ro-  people  fjr  almost  60  years^  died 
marii,anno  vitx  su?e  xcvii.  in  the  97  th  year  of  his  age^ 
mortuus  est,  xliv.  filiis  leaving  44  sons.  He  ordered 
reliclis.  Scipionem  divi-  in  his  will  ^cipio  to  be  the  di- 
sorenri  regni  inter  filios  vider  of  his  kingdom  amongst 
esse  jussil.  ^ds  so?is, 

12.  Cum  igitur  clarum  12.      JVhen    therefore    the 

Scipionis  nomen  esset,  7iJme  of  Scipio  ivas  now  be- 
juvenis  adhuc  Consul  est  come  famous,  he  was  made 
factus,  k  contra  Caitha-  Consul,  whilst  he  was  yet* 
ginem  mi*su3.  Is  earn  young,  and  sent  against  Car- 
iCepit,  ac  diruit:  spoliu  ibi  thage.  He  took  and  demolished 
nventa,  qus  de  variarum  it.  He  restored  the  spoils 
civitatum    cxcidiis    Car-  found  there,    which   Carthage 

f  He  was  the  sun  of  ^5!liuir.u£  Paulas,  but  adopted  by  the  son  of 
Scipio  Afiican'js. 

X  A  Tribune  was  an  offic  er  among  the  Romans,  mucli  tlie  same 
with  our  Color.els.     See  Rosinus  or  Pitiacus. 

*  J'u:e>i!s  is  a  word  of  iatiiude  enough  :  he  was  tlicn  38  years  of 
age,  r.'heieas,  by  the  Viiiiaii  la.v  he  should  liave  beeu  at  i«/a^t  4:^ 
«lureiit. 


1) 

I 

1 


Lli3ER  IT. 


69 


thago  collegerat,  &  orna- 
menta  urbium  civitatibus 
Siciliac,  Italisc  8c  AiVicsc 
reddidit,  qujc  sua  recog- 
noscebant.  Ita  Cartha- 
go septingentesimo  anno 
postquam  condita  erat, 
deleta  est.  Scipio  nomen 
quod  avus  ejus  acceperat, 
meruit  ;scilicet,  ut  propter 
virtutcm  etiam  ipse  Afri- 
canus  junior  vocaretur. 

13.  Interim  in  Macedo- 
nia quidam  Pscudo  Philip- 
pus  arma  movit,  &  Ro- 
manum  Prxtorem  Publi- 
um  Jurenicum  contra  »e 
missum  adinternecionem 
vicit.  Post  eum  Q,  Cseci- 
lius  MetellusduxaRoma- 
nis  contra  Pseudo  Philip- 
pum  missus  est,  &  vigin- 
tiquinque  millibus  ex  mi- 
litibus  ejus  occisis;  Mace- 
doniam  recepit  ipsum 
etiam  Pseudo  Philippum 
in  potestatem  suam  rede- 
git. 

14.  Corinthiis  quoque 
bellum  indicium  est,  no- 
bilisbimx  Grxciae  civitati, 
propter  injuriam, Legato- 
rum  Romanorum.  Ilanc 
Mummius  Consul  cepit 
ac  diruit.  Tres  igitur  Ro- 
mx  simul  celeberrimi  tri- 
umphi  fueruHt:  AiVicani, 
ex  Africa,  ante  cujus  cur- 
rum  ductus  est  Asdrubal : 
Metclli,  ex  Macedonia, 
ante  cujus  currum  prsc- 
eessit  AndrifcuS)    qui  Sc 


had  gathered  together  from  the 
ruins  of  many  cities,  and  the 
ornaments  of  several  towns, 
to  the  cities  of  Sicily,  Italy  and 
Africa,  which  knew  their  own 
again,  IVius  Carthage  was  det- 
troyed  in  the  700th  year  after  it 
was  built,  Scipio  deserved  the 
na??ie  which  his  grandfather 
had  received ;  that  is,  to  be 
called  for  his  good  conduct,  Af 
ricanus  junior, 

13.  I?i  the  mean  time  m 
certain  pretended  Philip  took 
vp  arms  in  Alacedonia,  and 
defeated  with  terrible  slaughter 
the  Roman  Rrator  Riiblius 
Juvenicus,  that  was  sent  a* 
gainst  him.  After  him  Q» 
CVcilius  JMetellus  was  sent  ge^ 
neral  by  the  Romans  against 
this  Jahe  Philip,  ar.d  25  thou- 
sand of  his  ssldiers  being  slain, 
he  recovered  J  Jacrdcnia,a?idgot 
the  pretended  Philip  himself 
i?ito  his  /lower. 


1 4.  A  war  likewise  was  pro^ 
claimed  against  the  Corinthians, 
a  very  noble  State  of  Greece, 
for  an  insult  upon  the  Ramein 
ambassadors,  Mutnmius  the 
Consul  to9k  this  city,  and  dc' 
77wlishcd  it.  Wherefore  there 
were  three  very  famous  tri- 
umphs  at  Rome  altogether ; 
Africanus*  over  Africa,  before 
whose  chariot  Asdrubal  <was 
led;  JMetellus'  over  Macedo* 
nia,  before  whose  chariot  went 
Andriscus,    ivha     is     likttvisi 


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Pseudo  Phillppus  dicitiir : 
Munimii,  ex  Corintho, 
ante  quern  signa  xnea,  & 
pictae  tabulae,  Sc  alia  ur- 
bis  clarissimx  ornamenta 
prarlata  sunt. 

15.  Iterum  in  Mace- 
donia Pseudo  Perseus  qui, 
Persei  filium  esse  dice- 
bat,  collectisservis,  rebcl- 
lavit,  Sccumseptemdecim 
armatorum    niillia  liabe- 

ret,  aTremellioQuxstore 
superatus  est.  His  diebus 
Androgynus  Romxvisus, 
jussu  aruspicum  in  mare 
mersus  est. 

16.  Edoem    tempore 
Metellus  in  Celtiberia  a- 
pud    PJispanos    egiegias 
res  gessit.    Successit   ei 
Quintus   Pompeius.  Nee 
niulto  post  Quintus  quo- 
que  Caepioadidembellum 
missus,  qr.od  quidam  Vi- 
riatus  contra  Romanos  in 
Lusitania,  gert;bat.    Quo 
metu  Viriatus  a  suis  in- 
terfcsfus  est,  cum  quatu- 
ordecim  annos  Hispanias 
adversum  Romanos  mo- 
visset.  Pastor  primo  fuit; 


ca/ZccI  the  false  Philifi;  and 
Mummius*  over  Corinth,  be^ 
J  ore  whom  brazen  statues  and 
fiictures,  and  other  ornaments, 
of  that  moat  funiQus  city  were 
carried, 

15.  Jgain  ifi  Macedonia  a 
pretended  Perse  us ,  ivho  said 
that  he  ivas  the  i^on  of  Perseus 
havinif  druTJu  io{uher  ^ome 
slaved^  rede/ted;  ^and  ajter  iie 
had  got  together  \7  thojuand 
armed  men^  nvas  routed  t:i 
Tremeliius  the  *  Qu^eUor,  In 
these  times  f  an  Hermaphrzdiie 
nvas  seen  at  Po?ne^  a?id  by  or- 
der of  the  \  .^riis/iicej  ivas 
droivned  in  the  sea. 

16  jit  the  same  time  MeteU 
his  )ier formed   notable    things 
tn  Celtiberia  amongst  the  Spa- 
niards,   Q,  Pompeius   succeed- 
ed  him.     jlnd  not  long  after 
Q.   Capio  too  was  sent    to  tht 
same  war,  which  one   Viriatut 
carried  on  against  the  Po/nan^ 
in    Lusitania,       U/ion    which 
terror    Viriatus    was    slain  by 
his  own  men,  after  he  had  ex- 
cited   Spain    against    tlte    Ro- 
vinns  fur    14    years  together. 
He  nvas  first  a   shepherd;  hv 


LIBER  IV. 


n 


*  The  Quarstor  in  the  Roman   army   «as  a  sort  of  a  navunstei- 
whose  business  too  it  was  to  take  care  of  the  spo.l  that  vas  not^"  'pos 
ed  of  a.  a  hooty  to  the  soldiers,  and  to  ^^ive  a  jist  account  to  the  Qui- 
tores  or  olhcers  ol  tlie  ti  eaun-y  at  Ron.e.  ^ 

fit  was  always  the  hard  fate  of  these  pc^r  creatures  amonj^  the  Ro- 
mans, as  ott  as  they  were  discovered,  to  be  tlms  served,  of  whicJi  there 
are  more  instances  than  one  in  [.ivy. 

X  Thee  men  were  so  calleil  from  Ara  and  Specio,  because  theii 


mox  lationum  dux:  post- 
remo  tantos  ad  bellum 
populos  concilavit,  ut  as- 
seitor  contra  Romanos 
Hispanix  putaretur :  8c 
cum  interfectores  ejus 
prasmium  a  GxpioneCon- 
fiule  peterent,  responsum 
est  nusquam  Romanis 
placuisse,  imperatorem  a 
suis  militibus  interfici. 

17.  Quintus  Pompeius 
deinde  Consul  a  Numan- 
linis,  qux  Hispanicc  civi- 
las  fuit  opulentissima, 
superatus,  pacem  ignobi- 
lem  fecit.  PosteumCaius 
Hostilius  Mancinus  Con- 
sul iterum  cum  Numan- 
tinis  pacena  fecit  infam- 
cm,  quam  populus  &  Se- 
natus  jussit  infringi,  at- 
que  ipsumMancinum  hos- 
tibus  tradi  :  ut  in  illo, 
quem  auctorem  foederis 
habebant,  injuriam  soluti 
foederis  vindicarent.  Post 
'antam  if^itur  ir^nomi- 
niam,  qua  a  Numantinis 
bis  Rom  an  i  exercitus 
fuerant  subjugati,  Publi- 
us  Scipio  Africanus  se- 
cundum consul  factus,  & 
ad  Numantiam  missus 
est.  Is  primum  militem 
vitiosum  &  ignavum  ex- 
ercendomagis  quam  pu- 
iV!endo,sine  aliqua  acerbi- 
tate  correxit.  Tum  mul- 
tas  Hispanic  civiiatcs 
partim  bcUocepit  parti m 


and  by  a  captain  of  a  gang  of 
robbers :  at  last  he  raised  so 
maiiy  nations  to  tuar,  that  he 
was  looked  upon  as  the  protec- 
tor oj  Spain  against  the  Ro- 
mans ;  and  when  his  assassins 
desired  a  reward  from  the  Con^ 
sul  Capioy  answer  was  madi 
them,  that  it  was  never  a  thing 
agreeable  to  the  Romans  that 
a  ge?ieral  should  be  slain  by 
his  own  soldiers. 

ir.  Afer  that  Q.  Pompe- 
ius the  Consul  being  routed  by 
the  JSTumantians,  which  was  a 
very  wealthy  State  cf  Spain^ 
made  a  scandalous  peace  with 
them.  After  him  the  Consul  C. 
Hostilius  Mancijius  made  a- 
gain  an  irfamous  peace  with 
the  Numantiyii,  which  the 
people  and  Senate  ordered  to 
be  broke,  and  Mancinus  him- 
self to  be  delivered  up  to  the 
enemies,  that  they  might  re- 
venge upon  him  whom  they  had 
for  the  author  of  the  treaty, 
the  iiijuin/  of  the  breach  of  it, 
I'Vhercfore,  ajter  so  great  a 
disgrace,  with  which  the  Ro- 
man afmies  had  been  twice  de- 
feated by  the  A^'umaniians, 
Publius  Scipio  Africanus  was 
made  a  second  ti?ne  Consul,  and 
sent  to  jVuraantia,  He  first 
reformed  the  vicious  and  idle 
soldiers  by  exercising  rather 
than  punishing  them  without 
afiy  scveiity.  Then  he  took 
many  cities  of  Spain,  partly 
by  force  and  partly  by  surren- 
der,    At  hit  he  reduced  .Yu- 


ra 


EUTROPIl 


in  dediiionem  accepit.  Po- 
stremo  ipsRmNumantiam 
diu  obsessam,  fame  con- 
fecit,  &  a  solo  evei  lit :  re  - 
liquam  provinciam  in  fi- 
de m  accepit. 

18.  Eo  tempore  Attai- 
ns rex  Asix,  fratev  Eu- 
menis,  mortuus  est,  hx- 
redemque  populum  Ro- 
manum  rcliquit.  Iia  im- 
perio  Romano  per  testa- 
mcntum  Asia  accessit. 

19.  Mox  etiam  Ueci- 
mus  Junius  Brutus  de 
Gallxcis  8t  Lusitanis  tri- 
umphavit  mugna  i^loria  : 
&  Publius  Scipio  Afri- 
canus  de  Numantinis  se- 
cundum triumphum  egit, 
xiy.  anno  postquani  prio- 
rem  dc  Africa  egerat- 

20.  Motum  interim  in 
Asia  helium  est  ab  Ari- 
stonico  BUimenis  filio, 
qui  ex  concubina  suscep- 
tus  fuerat.  Is  Eumenes 
f rater  Atiali  fuerat.  Ad- 
versus  eum  missus  est 
P.  Licinius  Crassus  :  lia- 
buit  infinita  regum  auxi- 
ilia  r  nam  Sc  Biihynix  rex 
Nicomedcs  Romanes  ju- 
Tit,  et  MiUi!'idates  Ponti- 
cus,  cum  CiUO  postea  hel- 
ium gravissimum  fuit :  et 
Ariaratbes  Cappadox,  et 


mantta  by  famine^  after  he 
had  Leiieged  it  a  long  time, 
mid  razed  it  to  the  ground, 
and  recovered  the  re^t  of  the 
province  ii/ion  promise  of  quar- 
ter, 

18.  At  that  time  Jttalus 
Kijig  of  Asia,*  brother  of  Eu- 
tvtiiei,  died,  and  lejt  the  Ro- 
ma:,  fieople  his  heir.  Thus 
Asia  'cjas  added  by  will  to  the 
Roman  empire» 

19.  £y  and  by  DecimuB 
Brutus  triumphed  over  the 
GalUcians  and  Lusitanians  in 
great  glory  :  and  Publiu*  Sci' 
pio  A/ricanus  had  a  second  tri^ 
umph  for  the  Mimantians,  14 
ytars  after    he   had    had   the 

former  over  Africa» 

20.  In  the  mean  time  a  war 
was  raised  in  Asia  by  Ariatoni' 
cus^the  son  of  Eumenes^who  had 
been  begotten  of  a  concubine» 
That  Eumeneswas  the  brother 
of  Attains,  Fublius  Licinnis 
Crassus  was  sent  against  him. 
He  had  a  great  many  auxiliary 
troops  from  several  Kings, 
For  both  Aicomedes  King  of 
Bithynia  ass i ted  the  Romans, 
and  Mith)'idatcs\  of  FoJitus ; 
with  whom  they  had  ajterwards 
a  very  dangeroufi  war,  and  A- 
riarathes  the  Cappadocian,  and 


*This  Attalus  was  tke  third  of  the  name,  and  son  of  Eumenes, 
who  was  brother  to  Attalus  the  second. 

t  Thr^'asTot  that  groat  xMitlnidates  that  bad  that  long  war  w.tli 
«ke  Roraans,  bat  his  father,  surntuieu  KvcrgcUs, 


f 


LIBER  IV. 


f  JS 


Pylaemenes     Paphlagon. 
Victus    est    tamen  Cras- 
sus, et  in  prxlio  inierfec- 
tus,     caput  ejus    Aristo- 
nico  oblaium  est ;  corpus 
Smyrnx  sepulium.    Pos- 
tea Perpenna  Consul  Ro- 
nianus  qui  sucessor  Cras- 
so  veniebat,  audita  belli 
fortuna,  ad  Asiam   cele- 
ravit:   acie    victum  Ari- 
stonicum,  apud  Stratoni- 
cem  civitatem,  quo  fuge- 
rat,  fame   ad  deditionem, 
compulit.        Aristonicus 
jussu   Senatus  Rom»  in 
carcere  strangulatus :  tri- 
umphari  enim  de  eo  non 
poierat,  quia  Perpenna  a- 
pud  Pergamum,  rediens, 
diem  obiciat. 

2 1 .  Lucio  Cxcilio  M e- 
tello,  et  Tito  Quintio 
Flaminio  Consulibus, 
Carthago  in  Africa  jussu 
Senatus  reparata  est,  quae 
nunc  manet  ;  anni-5  duo- 
bus  et  viginti  postquam 
a  Scipione  fuerat  eversa. 
Deduct!  eo  sunt  cives 
Romani. 


PyUmenes  the   Paphlagonian, 
howtver,  Crasms  was  dtftat- 
ed,  and  slain  in  the  battle :  his 
head  was  brought   to  Aristoni- 
cus,   and  his  body   buried  at 
*S?nyrna  ojterivards   Perpen- 
na,    the    Roman    Consid,    who 
came  as  successor  to    Crassus, 
hearing    of  the  fortune   of  the 
war^  made  haste  to   A&ia^  and 
obliged  jiristoniciis,  being  over- 
throiun   in  battle  at  the    city\ 
Stat  on  ice,  whither  he  had  fed, 
bijjamine  to  a  surrender.      A- 
ristonicus  by  order  of  the   6'e- 
nate\  was   strangled  at   Rome 
in  prison  ;  for  he  could  not  be 
triumphed  over,  because  Per^ 
pem\a,  as  he  was  coming  home 
died  at  \\  Pergamus, 

2  I .  Lucius  Ccccilius  Metellus 
and  T,  Quintius  Flaminius  be- 
ing Consuls,   Carthage  in  Afri- 


ca 


> 


by  order  of  the  Senate, 
was  rebuilt,  which  still  conti- 
nues ;  tivo  and  twenty  years  af- 
ter it  had  been  dr.stroyed  by 
Scipio,  Some  Roman  citizens 
were  transported  thither. 


*  A  city  of  Asia  Minor  in  loni»,  near  the  IP.^enn  sea. 

t  A  city  of  Cana  in  Asia  Minor. 

;  The  Homans  oftentinics  disposed  of  their  nri%)neis  of  «-nr  :«  fi  •- 
ma.n^er,  and  it  cannot  be  denied  but,  by  the  la  v  ^nn  «1   '  ;"      ' 
queror  ,n  ajust  u-ar  has  a  right  to  take  the  h  c  of "  ,  '  ^^'L    ^ 

II  A  city  of  Asia  Minor  in  the  greater  Mvsia. 


A 


74 


lutroph 


S2.  Anno  dcxxvii.  ab 
urbe  condita,  Caius  Cas- 
sius  Longinus,  et  Sexluis 
Domitius  Calvinus  Con- 
jBules,  (iallis  Transalpi- 
nis  bellum  intulerunt,  et 
Arvernorum  nobilissimae 
turn  civitaii,  atqiie  eo- 
rum  regi  Bituito:.  infiiii- 
tamque  multitiidlneni 
juxla  Rbodanum  fluvium 
interfecerunt.  Pix  da  ex 
torquibus  Galloriim  in- 
gens  Romam  perlaia  est. 
IJiiuiius  se  Donnitio  dedi- 
dit,  atque  ab  eo  Roniam 
duclua  est,  magnaque 
gloria  Consules  ambo 
tiiumpharimt. 

23.  Marco  Portio  Ca- 
tone,  &  Quinto  Marcio 
Rcge  Consulibus,  dcxxx. 
anno  et  tertio  ab  urbe 
condita,  Narbona  in  Gal- 
lia colonia  deducta  e^^t. 
Pobtea  L.  Melcllo  et 
Quinio  Mucio  Scaevola 
ConsulibuSj  de  Dalmatia 
triumphatum  est. 

24.  Ab  in  be  condita 
anno  dcxxxv.  C.  Cato 
Consul  Scordiscis  intulit 
bellum,  ignominioseque 
pugnavit. 

25.  C.  Cxcilio  Metello 


22.  In  the  year  6? 7  frofyt 
the  build'mg  of  the  city^  Cuius 
Cassius  JLoiiginus^  arid  Sex t  us 
Domitius  Calvinus^the  Consuls^ 
made  war  ufion  the  Transal- 
pine Gauls^  and  particularly 
upon  the  then  most  noble  ^Cute 
of  the  Arvernis  and  their  King 
Bituitus :  and  killed  an  infi- 
nite number  of  them  nigh  the 
river  Rhone»  A  great  deal  (f 
plunder^  consisting  of  the  * 
gold  chains  of  the  Gauls,  ivas 
brought  to  Rome,  t  Bituitus 
surrendered  himself  to  Domi- 
tiusy  and  was  brought  by  him 
to  Rome  ;  and  both  the  CunauU 
triumphed  in  great  glory» 

23.  Marcus  Fortius  Cato, 
and  Quint ius  Afarcius  Rt  z  be- 
ing  Consuls^     in    the  yea*-  0->3 

from  the  building  of  the  city^  a 
colony  was  carried  to  \  .Vurbon 
in  GauL  Afterwards  th'  Con- 
suls  L,  Metellus  and  Quinius 
Mucius  Scofvola  triumphed  o- 
vcr  Dalmatia, 

24.  In  the  year  \\  635  from 
the  building  of  the  city^  C.  Ca- 
to, the  Conf^ul,  made  war  ufion 
the  *  Scordisciy  and  came  off 
but  ignominiously, 

25.  When  C.  decilius  Me* 


■-'•■  These  were  worn  by  the  Gallic  officers  about  tlieir  necks. 

t  lie  did  nut  snireiider  to  Domitius  ;  but  bcnio:  defeated  the  year 
J'jllowiii^r  by  Q.  Fabius  /Kinilius,  and  coming:  to  Rome  t»  endeavom 
to  ,^ive  the  Senate  satisfaction,  he  was  there  nia<le  a  pnsonev. 

+  Not  far  from  Spain  upon  th-^  Meditcinaticaw. 

U  It  should  be  G59. 

^r  A  people  of  Thrace. 


LIBER  IV. 


75 


et  Cnjco  CarboneConsi'li- 
bus,  duo  Metclli  fratres 
eodem  die  aiterum  ex 
Thracia,  ex  Sardini  a  aite- 
rum triumphum  egerunt, 
NuntiaUimqiie  Romx  est 
Cimbros  e  Gallia  in  Ita- 
lian! transisse. 

26.  P.  Scipionc  Nasica, 
ct     L.  Calpurnio    Bestia 
Consulibus,        Jugurthx 
Numidarum  regi  bellum 
illatum  est,  quod  Adher- 
balem    et     Hiempsalem, 
IVIicipsre  filios,  fratres  su- 
os,    reges  et   populi  Ro- 
niani     aniicos     inlerem- 
isset.     Missus    adversus 
cum   Consul    Calpurnius 
Bestia,    corruptus    regis 
pecunia    pacem  cum   eo 
flagitiosissimam        fecit, 
quae  a  Senatu   reprobata 
est.    Postea  contra  eun- 
dem     insequenti      anno 
Spurius  Albinus  Posthu- 
mius    profectus    est.    Is 
quoque  per  fratem   igno- 
miniose  contra  Numidas 
pugnavit. 

27.  Tertio  missus 
Quintus  Cxcilius  Metel- 
lus Consul,  exercitum 
ingenti  severitate  et  mo- 
deratione  correctum,cum 
nihil  in  quemquam  cru- 
cntum  faceret,  ad  disci- 
plinam  Romanam  redux- 
it.      Jugurth*m      variis 


tcUus  and  Cncens  Carbo  were 
Consuls,  the  two  Mete  Hi  broth- 
ers had  each  a  triumph  the 
same  day-,  one  from  Thrace, 
arid  another  from  Sardinia, 
And  news  was  brought  to  Rome 
that  the  \Cimbri  had  passed 
from  Gaul  into  Italy, 

26.  When  P.  Scipio  Xusi^ 
ca  and  L,   Calfiurnius  Bestia 
were   Consuls,  war  was  made 
upon  Jugurtha,    King  cf  th,' 
A'umidiansy     because    he    had 
killed  Adherbal  and  Hinnpsal, 
sons  of  iMicipsa,  his  brofherf>, 
Kitigs,  and  allies   of  tJ<e   Ri* 
man  people.      The  Consul  Ca-- 
purnius  Bestia  was  sent  arfain.^H 
him,  and  being  bribed  by   the 
King^s  money,    made    a    ino-.l 
scandalous    peace    with     him^ 
which  was  disallowed  of  by  the 
Senate,       Afterwards   in    the 
year  following,  Spurius  Albi» 
nus  Post  hum  ius  went  against 
him.     He  likewise  e7igaged  the 
JYumidians  by  his  brother  with 
ignomi?iy. 


27.  Quintus  Cacilius  Me- 
tellus  the  Consul  bei)ig  sent  in 
the  third  place,  reduced  the 
Roman  army,  reformed  with 
great  strictness  andmoderatio?i 
loo,  since  he  did  nothing  cruel 
against  any  body,  to  the  Ro» 
man  discipline.  He  beat  Ju* 
gurtha  in  several  battles,    kiU 


c}J}^^^^ ^L'^^'''  ''''"'^  ^''^™  Jutland,  which  frdm  thein  was  «ailed 
Ciflabnca  Chersoneisus. 


76 


EUTROPII 


prxHis  vicit,  tiephantos 
ejus  occidit,  vel  cepit. 
Et  cum  jam  bello  finem 
impositurus  esset>  succes- 
sum  est  ci  a  C.  Mario. 
Is  Jtij^urtham  et  Boc- 
chum  Mauritania!  retj;em, 
qui  auxillium  Jui^urthae 
ferre  coeperat,  paritttr 
superavit.  Ali quanta  et 
ipse  oppida  Numidix 
cepit,  belloq  ;  terminum 
posuit,  capio  Juguriha 
per  Quxitorem  suuin 
Cornelium  Syllam,  in- 
gentum  virum,  tradente 
Jbtjccho  Juguriham,  qui 
pro  eo  ante  pugnaverat. 

28.  A  Marco  Junio  Si- 
lano  collega  Quinli  Me- 
telli  Cim:)ii  in  Gallia,  et 
a  Minutio  Rufo  in  Mace- 
donia Scordisci  et  Tribal- 
li  et  a  Servilio  Cacpione 
in  Hi'jpmia  Lusitani  vic- 
ti  sunt:  et  duo  triumphide 
Jugurtha,  primus  per  Me- 
tell'jm,  secundus  per  Ma- 
rium,  acti  sunt.  Antecur- 


led  or  took  all  his  elephants»* 
^nd  ivhcn  he  ivas  now  just 
ready  to  put  an  end  to  the  ivar^ 
he  ivas  succeeded  by  C,  Ma- 
rlus»  He  conquered  both  Ju- 
gurtha  and  Bacchus  King  of 
Alauritania^  who  /ia^/ just  then 
begun  to  give  assistance  to  Ju^ 
gurtha.  He  likewise  took  so7Jie 
towns  of  JVwnidia^  and  fiut  an 
end  to  the  war,  having  taken 
Jugurtha  by  means  of  his  Ques- 
tor  Cornelius  ^ylla^  a  great 
moTi,  Bocchus  delivering  ufi 
Jugurtha,  who  had  fought  for 
him  before» 


23.  The  Cimbri  were  de* 
featedin  Gauly  by  Marcus  Ju^ 
nius  Silanus,  the  colleague  of 
Qui?itus  Metellus,  and  the  Scor- 
disci  and  Triballi  by  Minutius 
Rufus  in  Alacedonia  ;  and  the 
Lusitanians  by  Servilius  Coepio 
in  Spain  :  and  there  were  two 
triumphs  over  Jugurtha,  the 
first  by  Metellus,  and  the  se- 
cond   by    Marius,      Jugurtha 


*  This  was  oftentimes  the  fate  of  the  Roman  generals  to  be  recalled 
when  they  haU  almost  finished  their  work.  But  thouajh  this  yearly 
cha!i;?e  of  their  i^enerals  is  thought  by  some  an  error  in  the  Roman 
conduct,  yet  the  progress  of  their  arms  notwithstanding  is  proof  enough 
to  the  contrary.  They  were  by  this  means  always  furnished  with  such 
a  stock  of  excellent  commanders  as  no  nation  in  the  world  besides  ever 
had,  or  could  have,  in  any  other  way  of  management.  B<::sides,as  their 
genjials  knew  their  time  to  be  but  short,  that  thought  naturally  put 
tht'm  upon  acting  with  vigour.  There  was  no  dallying  in  those  cir- 
cuiiKtunces  for  a  man  that  had  the  least  spark  of  honour  and  ambition 
in  him,  whilst  others  were  pushed  on  to  excel  and  distinguish  them- 
selves in  th<j  service  of  their  country  by  the  near  prospect  and  hope  of 
seeing  thcmiclves,  by  their  g-^d  behaviour  advanced  to  the  same  high 
dignity. 


LIBER  IV. 


rr 


rumtamen  Marii  Jugur-  with  his  two  sons  was  led  in 

tha  cum  duobus  filiis  due-  chains    before   the  chariot   of 

tus  est  catenatus,  et  mox  Mariusy  and  soon  afterwards 

jussu  Consulis  in  carcere  was  strangled  in  prison  by  or* 

strangulalus.  der  of  the  ConsuU 


G2 


EUTROPII 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORIiE  ROMANS. 


®:®- 


LIBER  V, 


D, 


UM  bellum  in  Nu- 
midia  contra  Jugurtham 
gerjiur,Romani  Consules 
Marcus  Manlius  et  Qain- 
tus  Cxpio  a  Cimbris  et 
Teutonibus,  et  Tigurinis 
et  Ambronibus,  qux  erant 
Germanorum  etGallorum 
gcntes,victi  sunt  juxta  flu- 
men  Rhodanum,et  ingen- 
ti  internecione  atiriti,  e- 
tiam  castra  sua,  et  mag- 
nam  partem  exercilus 
perdiderunt.  Timor  Ro- 
nixgrandis  fuit,  quantus 
\ix  Annibalis  temporePu- 
nicis  bellis,  ne  iierum 
Gain  Romam  venirent. 
Ergo  Marius  post  victo- 
riam  Jugurthinam  secun- 


W. 


HILST  the  war  is  car- 
ried on  in  JVumidia  against  Ju- 
gurtha^  the  Roman  Consuls  M, 
ManliuSf  and  Q.  Ccefiio  were 
beat  nigh  the  river  Rhane^  by 
the  Cimbri  and  the  *  Teutones^ 
and  the  f  Tigurini  and  the  Am-' 
brones^  which  were  nations  of 
the  Germans  and  Gauls  ;  and 
being  slaughtered  with  prodi- 
gious havoc ^  likewise  lost  their 
cainfi^  and  a  great  fiart  ef  their 
army.  There  was  a  mighty 
consternation  at  Rome,  such  aa 
was  hardly  ui  the  time  of  An- 
nibal  in  the  Carthaginian  wars, 
lest  the  Gauls  should  again 
come  to  Rome,  Wherefore 
Marius^  ajter  the  conquest  of 
Jtigurthaj  was  made  a  second 


*The  Teutones  were  neighbors  to  the  Cimbri,  bordering  upon  th« 
Baltic  sea. 

fThe  Tigurini  and  Anabrones  were  inhabitants  of  the  country  aaw 
called  Svvitzerlaad. 


LIBER  V. 


79 


dum  Consul   est  factus, 
bcllumq;  ei  contra  Cim- 
broset  Tuetonesdecretum 
est.    Tertio  quoque  ei  et 
quarto  delatus  est  Consu- 
latus:  quiabellacumCim- 
bris  protrahebantur:  sed 
in  quarto  consulalu  colle- 
gamhabuitQuintumLuc- 
tatium   Catulum.      Cum 
Cimbris  itaque  conflixit, 
et  duobus  praeliis  cc  millia 
cepit,  et    ducem   eorum 
Teutobodum ;       propter 
quod     me-itum     absens 
quintumConsul  est  factus. 
2.  Interea   Cimbri    et 
Tuetones,  quorum  copia 
adhucinfinita  erat,'ad  Ita- 
Jiam  transierunt.  Iterum 
a   Caio  Mario  et  Quinto 
Catulo  contra  eos  dimi- 
catum  est:  sed  a  Catuli 
parte  felicius.     Nam  eo 
prrclio,  quod  simul  am- 
bo  gesserunt,  cxl.  millia 
aut  in  pugna,  aut  in  fuga 
cxsa  sunt ;  ct  Ix.  millia 
capta.      Romani   milites 
ex  utroque  exercitu  tre- 
centi  perierunt.     Tria  et 
triginta     signa    Cimbris 
sublata  sunt ;  ex  his  ex- 
ercitus  Marii  duo  repor- 
tavit,     Catuli     exercitus 
XXX.  et  unum.     Is  belli 
finis  fuit :  triumphus  utii- 
que  decretus  est. 

3.  Sexto  Julio  Cxsare, 
et  L.  Marcio  Philippo 
Consulibus,  sexcentesi- 
mo  quinquagesimo  nono 


time  Consul  and  the  war  against 
the  Cimbri,  a?id  the  Teutones 
committed  to  him.  The  Con- 
sulship was  likewise  given  him 
a  third  and  fourth  time,  be- 
cause the  war  with  the  Cimbri 
continued.  But  in  his  fourth 
Consulate  he  had  for  his  col» 
league  Quintus  Luctatius  Ca- 
tulus.  Wherefore  he  engaged 
with  the  Cimbri,  and  took  200 
thousajid  of  them  in  two  battles^ 
and  their  general  Teutobodus  s 
for  which  good  service  he  was 
made  Consul,  when  absent  a 
fifth  time, 

2.    In   the  mean  time,    the 
Cimbri  and  the    Teutones,    oj 
whom  there  was   still  an    infi- 
nite number,  passed  into  Italy» 
Again  a  battle  was  fought  with 
them  by  C.  Marius  and  Quintu9 
Catulus  but  on  the  part  ofCatu- 
lus  more  successfully; for  in  that 
battle,which  they  both  fought  to- 
gether,     140    thousand    were 
slain  either  in  the  battle,  or  in 
the  flight,  and  60  thousand  ta- 
ken.      Three  hundred  Roman 
soldiers   of   both    armies  were 
slain.     Three  and  thirty  stan- 
dards were  taken  from  the  Cim- 
bri, of  which  the  army  of  Ala- 
rius  took  two,  and  the  army  of 
Catulus  thirty  and  one*      That 
was  an  end  of  the  war,  and  a 
triumph  was  decreed  for  them 
both. 

3.  When  Sextus  Julius 
Caesar,  and  M,  Lucius  Phi- 
lippus  were  Consuls,  in  the 
659th  year  from  the  building 


so 


EUTROP'II 


anno  ab  urbe  condita,cum 
prope   alia  omnia   bella 
cessasent,  in  Italia  gra- 
vissimum  bellum  Picen- 
tes,      Marsi,      Peligniq ; 
movenint :  qui  cum  an- 
nis  numerosis  jam  Popu- 
lo     Romano     obedirent, 
tum  libertatem  sibi  a&quam 
asserere  coeperunt.    Per- 
niciosum  admodum  hoc 
bellum  fuit.     P.  Rutilius 
Consul  in  eo  occisusest: 
Coepio  nobilis  juvenis,  8c 
Porcius  Cato  alius  Con- 
sul.    Duces    autem    ad- 
Tersus  Romanos  Picenti- 
bus    &    Marsis  fuerunt, 
Titus     Victius,      Hierus 
Asinius,  Titus  Herenni- 
us,  Aulus  Cluentius.     A 
Romanis  bene  contra  eos 
pugnatum    est    a    Caio 
Mario,  qui  sexies  Consul 
fuerat;  &  a  Cnaeo  Pom- 
peio,    maxime   tamen  a 
Lucio     Cornelio     Sylla, 
qui  inter  alia  facta  egre- 
gia,  ita  Cluentium  hosti- 
um  ducem  cum  magnis 
copiis   fudit,  ut   ex   suis 
nee      unum      amitleret. 
Quadriennio,    cum  gravi 
tamen    calamitate,     hoc 
bellum  tractumest.  Quin- 
to  demum  anno  finem  ac- 
cepit  perLucium  Corne- 


of  the  city^  when  almost  all  #- 
ther  wars  had  ceased^  the  Ft- 
centes^  the  Mar  si  and  Peligni 
raised   a    most  terrible  war  in 
Italy :    who,    after   they    had 
been  subject  to  the  Romans  Jor 
several  ijears,    begun   then  to 
claim  to  themselves  *  an  equal 
liberty.      This  was  a  very  de- 
structive war.    The  Consul  P, 
Rutilius  was  slain  in  it :    Ccs- 
pio,    a  noble  youth,  and  For- 
ci'us     CatOy     another     Consul» 
The  generals  of  the  Picentes 
and  Mar  si  against  the  Romans, 
were  Titus  Vietius,  Hierus  ji- 
sinius,     Titus  Here?inius,  jiu- 
lus   Cluentius,     The  war  was 
successfully   managed   against 
them  by  the   Romans  i.  e.  by 
C,    Marius,  who  had  been  six 
times  Consul,  and  by  f  Cnceus 
Pompeius,    but    especially    by 
Lucius  Cornelius  Sylla  i    who, 
amongst    other    extraordinary 
actions,  did  so  route  Cluentius, 
the    general    of   the   enemies, 
with  his  great   army,  that  he 
lost  not   one   of  his  own    men. 
This  war  was  spun  out  for  four 
years,  with  great  loss.    At  last, 
in  the  fifth  year,  it  had  its  pe- 
riod by  Lucius  Cornelius  Sylla, 
the   Consul,    after  he  had  per- 
formed  many  things  before  in 
the  same  war,  in   quality  of 
Prxtor,  very  gallantly. 


*  It  was  the  freedora  of  Rome  they  desired,  and  that  very  justly, 
having,  by  their  blood  and  treasure,  contributed  not  a  little  to  the 
grandeur  of  it.  This  was  called  the  Social  "War,  and  might  easily 
kave  been  prevented  by  a  little  reasonable  compliance  in  the  Romauf . 

t  Tfais  was  the  father  of  Pompey  the  €jeat. 


LIBER  V. 


SI 


Hum  Syllam  Consulem, 
cum  antea  in  eodem  bello 
ipse  multa  strenue  Prxtor 
gesbisset. 

4.  Anno  urbis  conditx 
Dclxii.  primum  Romx 
bellum  civile  C  Marius 
sexies  Consul  dedit.  Nam 
cum  Sylld  Consul  contra 
MithridaLem  gesiuius 
bellum,  qui  Asiam  &c  A- 
chaiam  occupaverat,  mit- 
teretur:  isque  excrcilum 
in  Campania  paulisper 
teneret,  ut  belli  socialis, 
de  quo  diximus,  quod 
intra  Italiam  gestum  fue- 
rat, reliquix  lollerentur, 
Marius  uffectavit, ut  ipse 
ad  bellum  Mithridaticum 
mitteretur,  Quare  Sylla 
commotus  cum  exercitu 
ad  urbem  venit.  Illic 
contra  Marium  8c  Sulpi- 
cium  dimicavit,  primus 
urbem  Romam  ingressus 
est,  Sulpicium  interfecit, 
Marium  fugavit:  atq ; 
ita  Consulibus  ordinatis 
in  futurum  annum  Cnseo 
Octavio  &  L.  Cornelio 
Cinna,  ad  Asiam  profec- 
tus  est. 

5.  Mithridates  enim, 
qui  Ponti  rex  erat,  atque 
Armeniam  Minorem,  8c 


4.  In  the  year  from  the 
building  of  the  city  *  662,  C 
AluriuSy  who  had  been  six 
times  Consul^  raised  the  frst 
civil  war  at  Rome,  For  when 
the  Consul  Sylla  was  sent  to 
carry  on  the  war  against  Mith- 
ridates, who  had  seized  upon 
Ada  and  Achaia,  and  kept  his 
ariny  in  Campania  a  little, 
that  the  relics  of  the  social  war 
of  which  we  have  spoken  above, 
which  had  been  carried  on 
within  Italy t  might  be  taken 
off";  Marius  affected  to  be  sent 
to  the  Mithridatick  war.  At 
which  thing  Sylla  being  nettled, 
came  with  his  army  to  town. 
There  he  engaged  against  Ma- 
rius and  Sulpiciufi :  f  he  killed 
Sulpicius,  and  obliged  Marius 
to  Jiy  :  and  so  having  settled 
the  Consuls  for  the  year  follow- 
ing, i.  e.  Cnaeus  Octavius  and 
L»  Cornelius  Cinna,  he  went  to 
Asia, 


5.  For  Mithridates,  who 
was  King  q/  Fontus,  and  had 
the  Lesser  Armenia,   and   the 


♦  It  should  be  &65. 

f  1  have  not  translated  the  words  primus  urbem  Romam  ingressus 
est,  because  it  is  visibly  impossible  to  make  any  agreeable  sense  of 
them.     Some  words  have  been  undoubtedly  left  out,  and  the  author 
means  parliaps  to  say  what  Madam  Dacier  supposes  he  might  write, 
primus  civis  urbem  Romam  ermaius  ingressus  «si. 


tl 


EUTROPir 


LIBER  V, 


85 


totiim  PonticiMT»  mare  in 
circuitu  cum  Bosporo  le- 
nebulj  primo  Nicomedcm 
amicum  populi  Romaui 
Biihynia  voluit  expellc- 
re :  Senatuique  mandavit, 
bellum  se  ei  propter  in- 
jurias  quas  passus  fuerat 
illaturum.  A  Senatu  re- 
sponsum  est  Mithridali, 
si  id  faceret,  quod  8c  ipse 
bellum  a  Romanis  patc- 
retur.  Quare  iratus,  Cap- 
padociam  i^tatim  occupa- 
vit,  &  ex  ea  Ariobarza- 
nem  regem  8c  amicum 
populi  Romani  fugavit. 
Moxetiam  Bithyniam  in- 
vaiit,  Sc  Paphlagoniam, 
pulsis  ex  ea  regibus,  ami- 
cis  populi  Romani  Py- 
lacmene  &  Nicomede. 
Inde  ad  Ephesum  con- 
tendit:  8c  per  omnem 
Asiam  litteras  misit,  ut 
ubicum  que  invent! essent 
cives  Romani,  uno  die 
occiderentur. 

6.  Interea  eiiam  A- 
thenx  civitas  Achaix  ab 
Aristone  Atheniensi  Mi- 
thridali tradita  est.  Mi- 
serat  enim  jam  ad  A- 
chaiam  Mithridates  Ar- 
chelaum  ducem  suum, 
cum  cxx.  millibus  equi- 
tumacpeditum;  per  quern 
etiamreliquaGraecia  occu- 
pata  est.  Sylla  Archelaum 
apud  Pirjeum non  longe  ab 


iv/iole  Pontlck  sea  all  round 
ivitli  the  Bofifioriis^  designed 
first  to  drive  J\/'icomedeSy  a 
friend  of  the  Roman  people^ 
out  of  Bithynia^  and  sent  word 
to  the  Senate^  that  he  would 
make  war  upon  him  because  rf 
the  injuries  he  had  suffered 
from  him.  Answer  was  made 
by  the  Senate  to  Alithridates, 
that  i/  he  did  so^  he  likewise 
would  have  a  war  with  the  Ro- 
mans» At  which  thing  being 
^^K'^^Ui  ^^  immediately  seized 
upon  Cappadocia^  and  drove 
Ariobarzcnes,  a  King  a^iU 
friend  of  the  Roman  peofdey 
cut  of  it.  By  and  by  too  he 
seized  upon  Bythynia  and 
Paphlagonia^  driving  the 
Kings  out  of  it,  friends  of  the 
Roman  people,  PyUmenes  and 
JVicomedea,  From  thence  he 
went  to* Ephesus^andseiU letters 
through  ell  Asia,  that  where- 
soever  any  Roman  citizens 
should  be  found,  they  should  be 
killed  in  one  day, 

6.  In  the  mean  time  too  A- 
thens  a  city  of  Achaia  was  de- 
livered by  Ariston  the  Athenian 
to  Mithridates.  For  Alithri- 
dates  had  already  sent  his  ge- 
neral  Archelaus  to  Achaia  with 
a  hundred  and  twenty  thou- 
sand horse  and  foot  ;  by  whom 
the  rest  of  Greece  too  was  sei- 
zed, Sylla  besieged  Arche- 
laus at  Pyraum  not  far  from 
Athens,  and  took  the  city  itself. 


*  A  city  of  Asia  Minor,  in  Ior>ia,  near  the  iTlgean  sea. 


Alhenis  obsedit,  ipsam- 
que  urbenn  cepit.  Postca 
commisso  praelio  contra 
ArchelauiTi,  ita  eumvicit, 
ut  ex  cxx.  millibus  vix 
decern  superessent  Ar- 
chelao,  8c  ex  Syllx  exer- 
citu  xiv.  lantum  homines 
interficereniur.  Hac  pug- 
na  Mithridates  cogniia 
Ixx.  mijlia  lectissima  ex 
Asia  Archelao  misit  con- 
tra quem  Sylla  iterum 
commisit.  Primo  prxlio 
viginti  milliahostiMm  in- 
terfecta  sunt,  filiusque 
Archelai  Diogenes:  se- 
cundo  omnes  Mithrida- 
li s  co^MJc  extinctac  sunt. 
Archt:laus  i!}se  triduo  nu- 
d'.is  in  paiudi'ous  latuil. 
ilac  re  cot^nita,  Mithrida- 
tes cum  Sylla  de  !)ace 
agcre  coepit. 

7,  Interim  en  tempore 
Sylla     etiam     Dardanus. 
Scordiscos    Dalinaiiab  £c 
Mcsospartim  vicit,  alios 
in    fidem    accepit.       Sed 
cum  le^;ati  a  rege  Miiliri  • 
date,  qui  paceni  pelebant, 
vinissent,    non    alilcr    se 
daturum   Sylla  esse  res- 
noudit,    nisi    rex  relictis 
liis    quaj  occiip.nverat,  ad 
regnum    suum  rediissct. 
Postea   tamen  ad    collo- 
quium   ambo    venerunt, 
pax  inter eosordinala  est; 
lit  Sylla  ad  bcllutn  civile 
fi^?tinans,    a  tergo    {)ei  i- 
culiim  non  habcrct.  I\am 


Afterwards  a  battle  being 
fought  against  Archelaus,  he 
so  conquered  him,  that  of  a 
hufidred  and  twenty  thousand, 
scarce  ten  were  Uft  Archelaus, 
and  only  fourteen  men  of  Syl- 
la*s  army  were  slain,  Mitfh- 
ridatcs,  having  heard  of  this 
battle,  se?it  70  thousand  cho- 
sen me 71  out  of  A.^tia  to  Arche- 
laus, agaifist  whom  Sylla  a- 
gain  engaged,  Jn  the  first 
battle  twenty  thausand  of  the 
enemies  were  slain,  and  the 
so?i  of  Archelaus  Diogenes, 
In  the  second  all  the  forces  of 
Mithridates  were  destroyed, 
Archelaus  lay  hid  for  three 
days  in  the  fens.  This  thing 
being  known^  Mithridates  be- 
gan to  treat  about  a  peace  with 
Sylla. 


7.  hi  the  mean  while  Sylla 
at  that  time  fiarthj   conuuered 
the  Dardunians,    the    Scordis- 
cans,  the   Dalmatians  and  the 
AltvsianSs     took  in  others  upon 
promise  of  quarter.     But  when 
the    deputies  were   come  from 
Alithridates^  wli'j  desired  peace, 
Sulla   replied  that  he  w  ^uf '  no 
otherwise  give    it,  unless    the 
Kings     quitting    those    places 
h  e  ha  d  se  ized,  ret  u  rn  ed  in  to  h  is 
own  kingdom.      Yet  aft(^wards 
they  both  came  to  a  conference, 
a    /icace    was    settled    betwixt 
them,  that   Sylla   hastening  ta 
the  civil  war,  might   have  fict 
danger  in  lus  rear.  For  whiht 


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EUTROPII 


cum  Sylla  in  Achaia  at- 
que  Asia  Miihndutem 
Ticit,  Maiiusqii  fugaUi> 
crat,  Sc  Cornelius  Ciima 
unus  ex  Consulibus,  hel- 
ium in  Italia  repararuiit  : 
&in.ujressi  urbemRomam 
nobilissimos  ex  Senatu 
&  Consulares  viros  inter- 
fecerunt,  nuiltos  proscrip- 
serunt ;  ipsius  Syllsc  do- 
mo  eversa,  filios  et  uxo- 
rem  ad  fugam  compide- 
runt  ;  universus  reliquus 
Senatus  ex  urbe  fugiens, 
ad  Syllam  in  Grxciam 
renit,  orans  ut  patrix 
subveniret.  Ille  in  Ita- 
lian! trajecit,  bellum  ci- 
vile gesiurus  adversus 
Norbanum  &  Scipionem 
Consules,  &  primo  prx- 
lio  contra  Norbanum  di- 
micavit,  non  longe  a  Ca- 
pua ;  turn  vii.  millia  ejus 
cecidit,  vi.  millia  cepit, 
cxxiv.  suorum  amisit. 
Inde  etiam  se  ad  Scipio- 
nem convertit,  8c  ante 
prxlium  totum  ejus  exer- 
citum  sme  sanguine  in 
deditionem  accepit. 

8.  Sed  cum  Romae  mu- 
tati  Consules  essent,  8c 
Marius  Marii  filius,  ac 
Papirius  Carbo  Consula- 


Sylla  wan  conquering  Alithri» 
dates  in  ^c/iaia  and  Ania^  iVIw 
riuny  who  had  betn  forced  tojly^ 
and  Cornelius  Cinna  one  of  the 
Con.\uls,  renewed  the  war  in 
Ita/y,  and  entering  the  city 
Rome,  slew  the  noblest  of  the 
Senate,  and  several  Consular 
gentlemen,  and  *  proscribed 
many  :  the  house  of  Sylla  hini' 
self  being  pulled  down,  they 
forced  his  sons  and  wife  tofiy  : 
all  the  rest  of  the  Senate  fying 
out  of  the  city  came  into  Greece 
to  Sylla,  begging  of  him  that 
he  would  relieve  his  country* 
He  went  over  into  Italy,  in  or- 
der  to  carry  on  a  civil  war  a- 
gainst  the  Consuls  Scipio  aiid 
A^orbanus,  and  in  the  first  bat- 
tle fought  against  A  orb  anus  y 
not  far  from  \  Capua;  he  then 
slew  seven  t h^iu sand  oj  his,  took 
six  thousand  and  lost  but  1 24  of 
his  own  men.  From  thence  too 
he  turned  himself  against  Scipio; 
and  before  battle  received  his 
whole  army,  without  bloodshed^ 
upon  surrender» 


8.  But  when  the  Consuls 
were  changed  at  Hornet  and 
Marius  the  son  of  Marius.  and 
Papirius    Carbo  had  received 


*  That  is,  posteil  up  their  names,  with  a  j^romise  of  reward  to  any 
that  should  kill  the.u.  This  was  the  fust  lime  this  horrid  barbarity 
wa^  practised  amongst  tiie  Romans. 

f  A  city  of  Campania. 


LIBER  V. 


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tiim  accepissent.  Sylla 
tamen  contra  Marium 
Juniorem  dimicavit :  & 
XV.  minibus  ejus  occisis, 
cccc.  de  suis  perdidit. 
de  suis  perdidit.  Mox 
etiam  &  urbcm  ingressus 
est.  Marium  Marii  fili- 
um,  Prscneste  persequat- 
us,  obsedit,  8c  ad  mortem 
compulit.  Rursus  pug- 
nam  gravissimam  habuit 
contra  Lamponium  £c 
Carinatem  duces  partis 
Marianx  ad  portam  Ciol- 
linam.  Lxxix.  millia 
hostium  in  eo  praelio  con- 
Ira  Syllam  iuisse  dicun- 
tur.  Xii.  millia  se  Syllx 
dediderunt :  cxteri  in 
acie,  in  castris,  in  fuga, 
insaiiabili  ira  victorum 
consumpti  sunt.  Cnajus 
quoque  Carbo  Consul  al- 
\er,  ab  Arimino  ad  Sici- 
lium  fugii  ;  8c  ibi  per 
Cnxum  Pompeium  inter- 
fectus  est  :  qucm  adoles- 
centem  Syliu  annosimum 
8c  XX.  natum  cognita  ejus 
industria,  traditis  ejus 
exercitibusprxfeccM'at,  ut 
secundus  a  Sylla  habe- 
re tur, 

9.  Occiso  ergo  Car- 
bone,  Pompeius  Sicilium 
recepit.  Transgressus 
inde  ad  Afiicam,  Domi- 
tium  Marianx  partis  du- 


the  Consulship,  Sylla  *  enga- 
ged  against  Marius  the  young- 
er,  and  killing  fifteen  thousand 
of  his  men,  lost  four  hundred 
of  his  own»  By  and  by  too  he 
entered  the  city  ;  'dnd pursuing 
Marius  the  son  of  Marius,  to 
Frccneste,  besieged  tdni  there, 
and  forced  him  to  a  violent 
death»  Jgai7i,  he  had  a  ter- 
rible bat  tit'  against  Lamponius 
and  Carinus,  genera's  rf  Ala- 
rius'  party,  at  the  Col  line  gate. 
There  are  said  to  have  been 
79,000cfthe  enemy  in  that  battle 
against  Sylla:  \ 2, (.)00  surren- 
dered themselves  to  Sylla  ;  the 
rtst  were  destroyed  in  the  field, 
in  the  camp,  and  in  their  flight, 
by  the  insatiable  rage  of  the 
conquerors,  Cnaus  Carbo,  the 
other  Consul  ftd  also  to  Sicily 
from  .driminum^  and  was  there 
slain  by  \  Crnnwi  Pcmptius, 
whom  though  a  young  man,  be- 
ing but  2  1  years  old,  Sylla  per- 
ceiving his  spirit,  had  placed 
at  the  head  cf  his  troops,  deli- 
vered tip  to  him,  so  that  he 
was  reckoned  the  seco::d  after 
Sulla, 


9,  H  here  fore  after  Carbo 
was  slain,  Pompey  regained 
Sicily,  Going  ovf^r  from  thence 
to  Jfrica,  he  slew  Domiiius, 
a  general   of  Marius'  party, 


*  Tt  is  hard  to  say  what  Eutropins  meau.i  here  by  tntnen. 
f  This  Potnney  «as afterwards  suinamcd  the  Great. 

II 


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EUTROPII 


cem,  8c  Hiarbam  regem 
Mauritanisc,  qui  Domitio 
auxilium  ferebat,  occidit. 
Post  hxc  Sylla  de  Miih- 
ridate  ingcnti  gloiia  tri- 
umphavitt  Cnxus  etiam 
Pompeius,  quod  nulli  Ro- 
manorum  tribuium  erat, 
quartum  &  xx.  annum 
agens,  de  Africa  trium- 
phavit.  Hunc  finem  ha- 
buerunt  duo  bella  funes- 
tissima ;  Italicum  quod 
8c  sociale  dictum.  &  Ci- 
vile: qux  ambo  tractata 
sunt  per  annos  decern, 
consumpserunt  ultra  cl. 
millia  hominum.  viros 
Consulares  xxiv.  Prxto- 
rios  vii.  ^Edilitios  Ix.  Se- 
natores  fere  ccc. 


and  IiiarbaSi  king  of  MaurttB' 
nia,  who  drought  assistance  to 
Domitius,  jifttr  this.,  Sylla  tri- 
umfihed  over  Alithridates  in 
great  glory,  Cnaus  Pompey 
tooy  when  going  u/ion  the  247A 
year  of  his  age-,  triumphed  over 
Africa^*  which  had  been  gran- 
ted  to  no  one  of  the  Romans 
before.  Tivo  very  destructive 
wars  had  this  e?idy  the  Italian^ 
which  vjus  likewise  called  the 
social  and  the  civil  war.  Both 
ivhich  were  carried  on  for  ten 
yearSi  and  took  off  above  a 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  mcn^ 
til- 7iy 'four  Consular  gentlemen^ 
seven  Pratorian.,  sixty  jEdili' 
tiun^  in: xi  almost  three  hundred 
Senators, 


*  The  honor  of  a  triumph  had  not  been  granted  before  to  any  but 
Dictators,  Consuls,  Praetors,  Propraetors,  that  is,  such  as,  after  the 
time  of  their  Consulship  or  Praetorship  was  expired,  were  sent  mto 
the  provinces ;  whcr«as  Pompey  had  not  as  y«t  been  in  any  office  «f 
the  ;overnin«Rt. 


. : 


EUTROPII 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORLE  ROMAN^oE. 


^-:i:«-:— I 


LIBER  VI. 


M 


ARCO  iEmilioLe- 
pido,  Quinto  Catulo  Con- 
sulibus,  cum  Sylla  rem- 
publicam  composuisset, 
bella  nova  exarserunt : 
unum,  in  Hispania  ;  ali- 
ud,  in  Pamphilia  &  Cili- 
cia  ;  tertium  in  Macedo- 
nia; quartum,  in  Dal- 
matia.  Nam  Sertorius, 
qui  partium  MariaRarum 
fuerat,  timens  fortunam 
caeterorum,  qui  interemp- 
li  crant,  ad  bellum  com- 
movit  Hispanias.  Missi 
sunt  contra  eum  duces 
Quintus  Cxcilius  Metel- 
lus,  filius  ejus  qui  Jugur- 
tham  rcgem  vicit,  &  Lu- 
cius Domitius  Praetor. 
A  Sertorii  duce  Hirluleio 
Domitius  occisus  est : 
Metellus  vario  successu 
contra   Sertorium    dimi- 

*  Others  call  him  Herculcius. 


M 


ARCUS  JEmilius  Le/ii. 
dus  and  Quintus  Catu/us  being 
Consuls,  when  Sylla  had  now 
settled  the  commonnveaUh^  new 
wars  broke  out ;  one  in  Spaiuy 
another  in  l^amfdiilia  and  Ci- 
licia,  a  third  in  Alaccdoniay 
and  a  fourth  in  Dalniatia,  For 
Sertoriusy  who  had  been  of  Ma^ 
rius'  party,,  fearing  the  fortune 
of  the  rest,  who  had  been  slain^ 
raised  Spain  to  war,  Qidntus 
Cacilius  JMetellus,  the  son  of 
him  who  conquered  kinz  Ju» 
gurtha,  and  Lucius  Domitius 
Frxtor,  were  sent  generals  a- 
gainst  him,  Domitius  was 
slain  by  Sertorius'  general  * 
Hirtuleius,  Metellus  fought 
witfi  various  success  against 
Sertorius,  Afterwards,  when. 
Metellus  alone  was  thought  in- 
sufficie7it  for  fighting  him^ 
Cnxus  Pompeiua  was   sent  tQ 


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cavit.  Postea  cum  impar 
pugnx  solus  Metellus  pu- 
laretur,  Cnxus  Pompeius 
ad  Hispanias  missus  est. 
Ita  duobus  ducibus  ad- 
vcrsis,  Sertoi'ius  fortuna 
▼aria  sxpc  pugnavit.  Oc- 
tavo dtiuium  anno  a  suis 
occibus  est,  Sc  finis  ei 
bcilo  d^tus  per  Cn.  Pom- 
pt^ium  adulescentem,  5c 
Quintum  Mttellum  Pi- 
II 111  ;  atque  onines  prope 
Hispanix  in  ditionem  Po- 
puli  Romani  redactx 
sunt. 

2.  Ad  Macedoniam 
missus  est  Appius  Clau- 
dius post  Consulatum. 
Levia  prxlia  habuit  con- 
tra viirias  gentes,  qux 
llhod;'pam  provinciam 
irxolcbar.t :  atquc  ibi 
morbo  morluus  est.  Mis- 
sus ei  successor  Cnxus 
Soriboniu3  Curio  post 
ConsuKilum:  is  Dardanos 
vicit,  Sc  usque  ad  Danu- 
biuni  Dcnelravit,  trium- 
pliuuique  meruit,  Sc  intra 
trieniiium     finem     bello 


Spain.  Thus  two g'c?ierals  be- 
ing employed  agaijist  him, 
Sertoriiis  fought  oftentimes 
nvith  various  Jortune,  jit  last 
he  ivas  slain  in  the  8th  year  by 
his  own  maiy  and  an  arid  iiut 
to  this  war  by  the  young  inan, 
Cnceus  Fomfiey,  and  Quiniua 
AlcteUus  Pins,  and  a/mo.st  all 
S/iain  riductd  under  the  domi- 
nion of  the  Jioman people. 


Icdit. 


Ad  Ciliciani  Sc 
Pamphiliam  missus  est 
p.  Servilius  ex  Consule, 
vir  strenuus.  Is  Ciliciam 
subegit,  Lycix  urbes 
clarissimas  oppugnavit  Sc 
ccpit:  in  his  Phaselidem, 


2.  ^pfiiu^  Claudius  tvas  sent 
after  his  Consulshiji  to  Mace- 
donia. He  fought  some  slight 
battles  against  various  nations^ 
ivliich  inhabited  the  province 
of  *Rhodo/iey  and  there  died 
cf  a  distemper.  Cnceus  Scri- 
bmius  Curio  was  sent  as  his 
successor,  after  his  Consulship  : 
lie  conquered  the  ^Dardaniansy 
and  penetrated  as  far  as  the 
Danube,  and  deserved  a  tri- 
umph^ and  ivithin  three  year» 
put  and  end  to  the  luar. 


3.  Publius  Serviliua  after 
his  being  Coiisul,  an  active 
man,  was  sent  to  Ciiicia  and 
Pamphilia,  He  subdued  Cili' 
cidy  attacked  the  most  famous 
cities  of  Lycia,  and  took  them  ; 
amongst  these  Fhaselis,  Olym- 


*  In  Thrare. 

\  A  peupleabovs  Maccdouia. 


LIBER  VI. 


89 


Olympum,  Coricum  Cili- 
ciac.  Isauros  quoque  ag- 
gressus,  in  deditionem 
redegit,  atque  intra  trien- 
nium  bello  finem  dedit. 
Primus -omnium  Roman- 
orum  in  Tauro  iter  fecit. 
Revcrtens  triumphum 
accepit,  8c  nomen  Isauri- 
ci  meruit. 

4.  Ad  Illyricum  missus 
est  Cnxus  Cosconius 
Proconsul :  multam  par- 
tem Dalmatiae  subegit, 
Salonas  cepit  ;  Sc  cora- 
posito  bello,  Romam  post 
biennium  rediit. 

5.  lisdem  temporibus, 
Consul  Marcus  ^milius 
Lepidus,  Catuli  collega, 
bellum  civile  voluit  com- 
movere;  intra  tamen  u- 
nam  xstatem  motus  ejus 
oppressus  est.  Ita  uno 
tempore  multi  simul 
triumphifuerunt;  Metel- 
li,  ex  Hispania ;  Pom- 
peii, secundus  ex  Hispa- 
nia ;  Curionis,  ex  Mace- 
donia; Servilii,  ex  Isau- 
ria. 

6.  Anno  urbis  conditas 
ncLxxvi.  L.  Licinio  Lu. 
cullo,  6c  Marco  Aurelio 
Cotta  Consulibus,  mor- 
tuus  est  Niconiedes  rex 
Bithynia:,  ct  per  testa- 
mentumpopulum  Roma- 


pus  and  Coricum  of  Ciiicia» 
He  likewise  invaded  the  *Isau- 
rians,  Jorced  them  to  a  submis- 
sion, and  within  three  years 
put  and  end  to  the  war.  He 
first  of  all  the  Romans  made  a 
march  over  mount  Taurus» 
Returning  he  received  the  hon- 
our of  a  triumph,  a?id  earned 
the  name  of  Isauricus. 

4.  Cneeus  Cosconius  was 
sent  ProconsiU  to  Illyricum ; 
subdued  a  great  part  of  fBal- 
matia,  took  Salon ce  ;  and  having 
made  an  end  of  the  war,  re- 
turned after  two  years  to  Rome. 

5.  In  the  same  times,  tht 
Consul  Marcus  jEmilius  Lepi- 
dus^ the  colleague  of  Cattdus, 
had  a  design  to  raise  a  civil 
war  :  yet  his  disturbance  was 
sufifiressed  within  one  summer» 
Thus  at  one  time  there  were 
ma?iy  triumphs  together ;  Me- 
tellus* over  Spain;  Pompey's 
second  over  Spain  ;  Curio's  o- 
ver  Macedonia  ;  Sei  villus*  c- 
ver  Isauria. 


6.  In  the  year  from  the 
building  of  the  city  |676, 
when  Lucius  Licinius  Lucul- 
lus  and  Marcus  Aurelius  Cotta 
were  Consuls,  .Vicomedes,  king 
of  Bithynia  died,  and  by  his 
will   made  the   Roman  people- 


*  isauna  lies  on  the  north  part  of  Pam])hiliaand  Ciiicia. 
f  Dalinalia  is  a  part  of  IJlyriciim, 
X  ^'i^  it  should  have  beeu. 

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nam  fecit  haredem.    Mi- 
thridates  pace  rupta,  Bi- 
thyniamet  Asiam  rursus 
voluit  invadere.     Adver- 
sus  eiim  ambo  Consules 
mihsi  variam  habuere  for- 
tunam.  Cotta  apud  Chal- 
cedonem   victus  ab  eo  a- 
cie,  eiiam  intra  oppidum 
coactus  est,  et  obsessus. 
Scd  cum  se  inde  Mithri- 
dates    Cyzicum   transtu- 
lissct,    ut,  Cyzico  capto, 
totam    Asiam  invaderet, 
Lucullus  ei  alter  Consul 
occurrit :   ac  dum  Mith- 
1  idates  in   obsidione  Cy- 
zici   commoraretur,  ipse 
a  tergo  obsedit,  fameque 
consumpsit,      et     multis 
prjcliis   vicit.     Postremo 
Byzantium    (quae     nunc 
Constantinopolis  est)  fu- 
gavit.       Ndvali    quoque 
prxlio  duces  ejus  Lucul- 
lus  oppressit.      Ita   una 
liyeme  et  xstatc,  a  Lu- 
cullo  ad  centum  fere  mil- 
lia  hominum  exparte  re- 
gis extincta  sunt. 

r.  Anno  urbis  Romic 
Dclxxviii.  iNIacedoniam 
provinciam  M.  Licinius 
Lucullus  accepit,  conso- 
brinus  Luculli,  qui  contra 
Miiliridaiem  bcllum  ge- 


his  heir,  Mithridates  breaking- 
the  peace^  endeavoured  to  seize 
Bithynia  and  Asia  again.  Both 
the  Consuls  being  sent  against 
him,  had  various  fortune*    Cot- 
ta being  routed  by  him  in    the 
field  at  *Chalcedon^  ivas  forced 
also  ivithin   the   town,  aiid  be- 
fiieged.    But  after  Mithridates 
had  re?noved  thence    to  fCyrf- 
cum^  that  after  taking  Cyzicum^ 
he  might  invade  all  Mia,  Lu- 
cu/lusy    the   other  Consul,  met 
with  him  ;   and  whilst  Mithri- 
dates  lay  there  in  the   siege  of 
Cyzicum,    he  besieged  him   be^ 
hifidyyand  wasted  his    tmops 
by  famine,  and  defeated  him  in 
?7iany     battles.      At    lust,    he 
forcedhimtojly  to  Byzantium^ 
which    is  710W  Constantinople. 
I.ucullua  likewise  beat  his  ad- 
mirals  in  a  battle  by  sea.    Thus 
in  one  winter  and  summer,  c- 
bout  a  hundred  thousand  inen 
on  ,he  King's  side  luhere  slain 
by  Lucullus, 


7.  In  the  year  of  the  city 
Rome  ^678,  Marcus  Licinius 
Lucullus  received  the  province 
of  Macedonia,  cousin  of  Lu- 
cullus who  carried  on  the  war 
against   Mithridates,      And  a 


♦  Cn;..rctIon  was  a  city  of  Asia  ^^i^or,  in  the  province  of  Bithynia, 
nvratUe  entrance  of  the  Euxine  «ea,  over  against  Constantinople. 

t  tyzicus  or  C yzRuin,  a  m.t.Hl  city  of  Asia  Minor,  upon  the  Pro- 
rontis,  not  tar  tioin  the  Hellespont. 

i  63U  iic  .siiouiU  htV  e  said. 


LIBER  VI. 


(Jl 


rcbat.  Et  in  Italia  no- 
vum bellum  subito  com- 
motum  est.  lxxx.  enim 
et  quatuor  gladialores, 
ducibus  Spartaco,  Chry- 
so  et  (Enomao,  eftVacto 
Capux  ludo,  effugerunt; 
et  per  Italiam  vagantes, 
pene  non  levius  belJum 
in  ea,  quam  Annibal  mo- 
verat,  paraverunt ;  nam 
multis  ducibus,  et  duo- 
bus  slmul  Romunoium 
ConsuUbus  viciis  sexa- 
ginia  fere  milliiim  arma- 
torum  exercitum  con- 
gregaverunt :  victique 
sunt  in  Apulia  a  M.  Li- 
cinio  Crasso  Procoiisule, 
et  post  muhas  calamita- 
les  Itnlix,  tertio  anno 
bello  huic  finis  imponi- 
lur. 

8    Sexcentesimo  octo- 
gesimo  primo  uibis  con- 
dilx   anno,    P.    Cornelio 
Lentulo  &  Cnxo  Aufidio 
Oieste   Consulibus,    duo  ' 
tuntum    gravia    bcli^    in 
imi>ciio    Romano   erant, 
Miihridaticum   et  Mace- 
donicum :  h»c  duo  Lucul- 
li agebant,  L.   Lucullus, 
et  M.  Lucullus.  L.  ergo 
Lucullus    post    pugnam 
Cyzicenam,    qua    \icerat 
Miihridatem,  et  navalem, 
^lUa   duces    ejus  oppres- 
trat,  persecutusesteum; 
tt    recepta    Paphlagonia 


72^7:»  war  was  suddenly  raised 
in  Italy  :  for  four  score  and 
four  gladiators,  under  their 
leaders  S/iartacus,  Chyrsus 
and  CE?io?naus,  breaking  o/ien 
a  scliQol  at  Cajiua,  made  their 
escape  ;  and  vjandering  through 
Italy,  raised  almost  no  Uss  a 
war  in  it  than  Annibal  had  done. 
For  defeating  several  generals^ 
and  two  Consuls  of  the  Rq, 
mafis  together,  they  assembled 
an  army  of  almost  60.000  ar- 
med men,  and  were  overthrown 
in  A/iulia  by  M,  Licinius 
Crassus  the  Proconsul ;and  after 
many  calamities  brought  upon 
It  Lily,  an  end  is  put  to  this  war 
in  its  third  year. 


t  €82  rath«r. 


8.  In  the  ieSlst  year  from 
the  building  of  the  can  when 
Puh'nis     CornrliuM     Lcntulus 
^  and   Cn^us   Aunidius    Orestes 
were  Consuls,  there  were  only 
two   considerable    wars   in  the 
Roman  empire,  the  Mithrida- 
tic  and  Macedonian,      The  two 
Luculli,  L.   Lucullus  and    M, 
Lucullus       n.auiged        these, 
Jl'hcre/ore    L.   Lucullus   after 
the  battle  of  Cyzicus,  in  which 
he    had  defeated  Mithridates, 
and  the  fight  at  sea,  in  which 
he  had  overthroivn   his   admi- 
rals, pursued  him  ;    and  reco- 
vering  ra/ih!ago7ua    and  Bi- 


n 


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LTBE^  VI. 


92 


atque  Bithy  nia  etiam  re- 

gnum  ejus  invasit.  Sino- 

pen  et  Amisum  civitatcs 

Ponti  nobilissimas  cepit : 

secundo  prselio  apud  Ca- 

biram  civitatem,  quo  in- 

gentes   copias   ex    omni 

regno  adduxerat  Mithri- 

dates  cum  trigiiUa  millia 

lectissima regis  aquinque 

Romanorummillibus  vas- 

tata  essent,Mithndates  fu- 

gatus,et  castra  ejusdirep- 

la.      Armenia      quoque 

Minor,  quam  tenueral,ei- 

dem  sublata  est.   Suscep- 

tus  tamen  estMithridates 

post    fugam    a   Tigrane 

Armeniai  rege  ;  qui  tum 

ingeuti  gloria  imperabat, 

Peisas      sxpe      vicerat, 

Mesopotamiam    occupa- 

verat,      et     Syriam,     et 

Phcenices  partem. 

9.  Ergo  Lucullus  repe- 
tens  hostcm  fugatum,  ~e- 
tiam  regnum  rigranis, 
qui  Armeniis  imperabat, 
ingressus  est.  Tigrano- 
certam  civitatem  Ar- 
menisc  nobilissimam  ce- 
pit ;  ipsum  regem,  cum 


i/iynia,  likewise  invaded  his 
kingdom.  Be  took  the  most 
famous  cities  of  Fontus 
*Sinope  and  Jmisus*  In 
the  second  battle  at  the  city 
t  Cabira,  vjhither  Mithridatea 
had  brought  a  vast  army  drawn 
out  of  all  parts  of  his  kingdom^ 
when  thirty  thousand  chosen 
men  of  the  King's  ivere  routed 
by  five  thousand  of  the  Ro^ 
?na?is,  Mithridatea  was  forced 
tofly^  and  his  camp  was  filun- 
dered.  jirmenia  the  less  too 
which  he  had  seized^  was  taken 
from  him.  Yet  Mithridatea 
was  received  lifter  his  flight, 
by  Tigra7ies,  the  King  of  Ar- 
meniay  who  then  reigned  in 
great  glory,  had  often  co?i- 
(juered  the  \ Persians,  had  sei- 
zed Mesopotamia  and  Syria 
and  part  of  Phanicia. 

9.  Wherefore  Lucullus  a- 
gain  marching  in  quest  of  the 
flying  enemy,  entered  likewise 
the  kingdom  of  Tigranes,  who 
reigned  over  the  two  Armenias, 
Ifs  took  the  most  famous  city  of 
Armenia  Tigranocerta ;  the 
King     himself,     coming    with 


*  Sinope  anil  Amisus  were  cities  of  Paphlagonia,  not  Puntus, 

•f  A  city  of  PonlBS. 

X  Our  author  should  have  said  Parthians,  for  so  the  nations  inhabit- 
ing betwixt  the  rivers  Tigris  and  Indus,  from  the  time  that  they  wer» 
contjucred  fiom  tiie  Macedonians,  by  Ar*^aces  the  Partl'ian,  were 
called,  till  the  old  loyal  family  of  tiie  Arsacidae  was  entirely  «et  asiiU 
by  Artaxerxes  a  Persian,  in  the  days  of  Alexander  Sevetus,  Emperor 
of  Rome,  and  year  of  Christ  233  ;  upon  which  the  name  of  Parthians 
was  laid  aside  for  that  of  Persians,  and  the  coiuitry  is  at  this  da y 
called  Pert>ia. 


sexcentis  millibus  sagit- 
torum  et  armatorum  ve- 
nicntem,  octodecim  mil- 
lia militum  habens,  ita 
vicit,  ut  niagnam  partem 
Armenioi'um  dclcvciit. 
Inde  Nisibin  protecUis 
earn  quoque  civitatem 
cum  regis  fratre  cepit. 
Sed  hi,  quos  in  Ponto 
Lucullus  reliquerat  cum 
exercitus  parte  ut  regio- 
nes  victas,  etiam  Ro- 
manes, tuercntur,  negii- 
genter  se  et  avare  agen- 
tes,  occasionem  iteium 
Milhriduli  in  Pontum  ii*- 
rumpendi  dederunt,  at- 
que  ita  bellum  renova- 
tum  est.  Lucullo  paranti, 
capta  Nisibi,  contra  Per- 
sas  expeditionem,  suc- 
cessor est  missus. 

10.  Alter  in  LucuUus, 
qui  Macedonian!  admini- 
strabat,  Bessis  Romano- 
rum  primus  intulit  bel- 
lum, atque  eos  ingenti 
prsilio  in  M,xwo  monte 
snpcravit:  oppidum  Us- 
cudamam,  quod  Bessi 
habitabant,  eodem  die 
quo  aggressus  est,  vicit : 
Cabylen  cepit ;  usque  ad 
Danubium  penetravit. 
Inde  mulias  super  Pon- 
tum posiias  civitates  ag- 
gressus est.  I  Hie  Appol- 
loniam  evertit,  Calalin, 
PartUenopolin,     Tomos, 

•''  A  '.ity  of  Mesopotamia. 


600,000  boiv  men,  and  other 
armed  7ncn,  having  hut  18,000 
men,  he  so  dtfeated,  that  he 
cut  off  a  great  part  cf  the  Ar' 
menians.  Marching  front 
thence  to  *J\lsibis^  he  took  that 
city  too,  with  the  King's  brO' 
ther.  But  thsne  whom  Lucul' 
I  us  had  left  in  Pont  us  with 
part  of  the  army,  to  protect 
the  conquered  countries  and  the 
Romans  too,  behaving  them' 
selves  carelessly  and  covetously^ 
gave  again  an  occasion  to  iMith' 
ridates  of  breukit^g  into  Pon- 
tus,  and  so  the  war  was  re- 
7iewcd,  A  Sliced ssf^r  was  sent 
Lucullus,  preparing  for  an 
ex/iedition  against  (hePersia?iSy 
after  he  had  tukeii  .Yisibis, 


10.  The  other  Lucullus,  wh§ 
governed  Macedonia,  first  of 
all  the  Romans  nuide  war  ufioii 
the  Bess:^  u.d  ,  ou.'fd  them  in  a 
great  battle  in  mount  j.T!.mus ;  he 
took  the  town  of  Uscu da  ma,  wh icli 
the  Bessi  inhabited,  the  same  day 
he  ]first  attacked  it.  He  took 
Cabyle^  and  penetrated  as  far  as 
the  Danube,  Jfter  thut  he  attack" 
ed  many  cities  lying  abovePon' 
tus.  There  he  destroyed  A ppoU 
lonia^  took  Calatis,  Parrhenopo- 
lis,  Tjmi,  later  and  all  Byzia ; 
and  ufl'.i  f '?ff  war  was  ended  re- 
turned  to  Rome,  Yet  they  botn 
triumfihed  i  Lucullus  who  hud 


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LIBER  VI. 


Istrnm,  Byziam  omnem 
cepit :  belloque  confecto, 
Romam  lediit :  ambo 
tamen  triumphaverunt  ; 
Lucullas  qui  coiiira  Mi- 
thridatem  pugnaverat, 
niajori  gloria,  cum  tan- 
torum  regnorum  victor 
rediisset. 

11.  Confecto  bello 
Macedonico,  manente 
Mithridatico,  quod,  rece- 
dente  Lucullo,  rex  col- 
Icctis  auxiliis  reparaverat, 
bellum  Creticum  ortum 
est ;  ad  id  missus  Caeci- 
lius  ^letellus,  ingentibus 
prscliis  intra  triennium 
omnem  provinciam  cepit, 
appellatusque  est  Creti- 
cus  ;  atqje  ex  insula  tri- 
umphavit.  Quo  tempore 
Lybia  quoque  Romano 
imperio  per  testamentum 
Apionis,  qui  rex  ejus  fue- 
rat,  accessit,  in  qua  incly- 
tx  civitates  erani,  Beren- 
ice, Potemais  ct  Cyrene. 

12.  Dum  hac  gerun- 
tur,  piratx  omnia  maria 
infcstabant :  ita  ut  navi- 
gatio  Romanis  toco  orbe 
victoribus  sola  tuta  non 
csset.  Quare  id  beiUim 
Cnaso  Pompeio  decretum 
est,  quod  intra  paucos 
menses  ingenti  felicitate 


fought  against  Mithridate» 
vjit/i  the  greater  glory ^  seeing 
he  had  returned  conrjueror  tjf 
such  great  kingdom*. 


9S 


11,  After  the  Macedonian 
ivar  ivas  ended^  the  Mithri da- 
tick  still  continuing^  which  up' 
on  Luc u II us'  going  off,  the 
king  raising  new  forces  had 
reneived^*  the  Cretian  ivar  be- 
gun ;  Ccecilius  MctcHus  being 
sent  to  that  war,  reduced  the 
whole /irovince  by  great  battlesy 
in  three  yearsy  and  was  called 
Creticus,  and  triumphed  over 
the  island,  \^t  which  time 
\Lybia  too  was  added  to  the 
Rema7i  e7nfiire,  by  the  will  of 
^4/iion^  who  had  been  King 
thereof  in  vjhich  were  the  J  a- 
mous  cities^  Jhrenice^  Ptole» 
mats  and  Cyrene, 

12.  Whilst  these  things  are 
doings  the  pirates  infested  all 
the  seasy  so  that  sailing  only 
was  not  safe  to  the  Romans^ 
thon^^h  victorious  through  the 
whole  world.  Wherefore  that 
war  was  voted  for  Cnaeus  Pom- 
peyy  which  he  dispatched  in  a 
few  months    with  great  good 


*  In  the  year  679  from  the  building  of  Rome,  to  which  Metellus 
was  not  sent  till  G86. 

t  This  is  a  mistake,  Apion  died  in  6jS. 
ij:  A  country  on  the  \v«st  of  Ejypt 


r:     celeritate     confecit. 
Mox  ei  delatum  bellum 
ctiam       contra       regem 
Mithridatem,    et    Tigra- 
nem :      quo       suscepto, 
Mithridaiem  in  Armenia 
Minore,  noctuino  piaelio 
vicii,  casiiadiripuii;  qua- 
dra.t,iuta  millibas  ejus  oc- 
cisib,    viginti   tauiura  de 
exerciiu    suo  perdidis   et 
duos  Centuriones.   Mith 
ridates  cum  uxore  fu.ijit, 
duobus  comlLibus;  v,v-\-\q 
multo    post  cum    •    iiios 
SKviret,  Pliarnacis  .li.i  s>ii 
sc'dl.ione  aj'u  I  niilites,  ad 
moite.i»'-  ,«r  us,ve-  ,'nir.rj 
hiusit.    liu  c  ti-    Ml   lia- 
bui-   Mitij-idates  ;     p.riil 
autem    a.  ud    B)s;)iiiin, 
vir      inj^ciitis      i.  du-.uix 
consiliiqiie.    Reti-rJtan- 
nos  vexugiiua  :   vixit    ep- 
lu  iginta    duos  :     contra 
Romanos  bellum  habuit 
annos  quadraginta. 

13.  Tigrani  deinde 
Pompeius  bellum  iiUulit; 
ille  se  ei  dedidit,  in  cas- 
tra  Pompeii  sexto  decimo 
milliario  ab  Artaxata  ve- 
nit ;  ac  diadema  suum, 
cumprocubuissetadgenua 
Pompeii,  in  manibus  ejus 
collocavit :  quod  ei  Pom- 
peius reposuit,  honorifi- 
ceque  eum  habitum,  reg- 


fortunc  and  expedition.     Soon 
after  too  the  war  against  king 
Mithridates  and  Tigranes  was 
comrnitted   to  him  ;    after  the 
undertaking  of  which^  he  con» 
queredy    in   a    battle  by  nighty 
Mifhridutes    in    Armenia    the 
Lessy  and  plundered  his  camp^ 
slaying  40  000  of  his  men  ;  he 
lost  only  20  of  his  own  army^ 
and  two  Cmturions,     Mithri- 
dates Jitd  wif.h   his  wife  and 
two   attendants^  and  not  long 
after y  behaving  crucUy  towards 
his  own  relations,  bcii.g forced 
to  die  bit  .1.   m>;'iny   of  his  own 
son    Phurnwe.i      amongst     the 
soldiers,      he      c'-unk     /.cihon. 
This  end  had  A/:h  ;  lates  :    he 
dif'd   at    *lJj,i/thorusy    being  a 
man  of  gnat  uciii  ";  (..  •.  /  con- 
auct.      he  reig:    d  uxf.^  .'-  '••■''o, 
lived   st-veniyi^nju,    dr.d   had  a 
war  with  the  Ru:nans  |40, 


13.  After  that  Pompcy  made 
war  upon  Tigranes^  he  surren- 
dered  himself  to  him.  and  came 
into  Pomfiey's  camp.,  sixteen 
miles  from  Artaxata^  and  put 
his  diadem  in  /lis  hands  ajter  he 
hadjallen  at  the  knees  of  Pom- 
pey ;  which  Pompey  returned 
him ;  and  though  he  treated 
him  honourably y  yet  deprived 
him  of  a  fiart  of  his  kiiigdom^ 


*  He  means  the  Crimmerian  Bosphorus  bstwixt  the  Fuxine  auil 
*ePalusMaeotis. 

f  Some  make  them  more  and  some  le». 


96 


EUTROPII 


iii  tamen  parte  mulctavit, 
ct grand!  pecunia:  ademp- 
ta  est  ei  Syria,  PhcEjiice, 
Sophene :  sex  millia 
prxlerea  talenlorum  ar- 
genli,  qux  populo  Roma- 
no daret,  quia  bellum  si- 
ne causa  Romanis  com- 
movisset. 

14.  Pompeius  mox  e- 
tiam  Albanis  bellum  in- 
tulit,et  eorum  regemOro- 
dem  ter  vicit :  postremo 
per  epistolas  el  munera 
rogatus,  veniam  ei  ac  pa- 
cem  dedit.  Iberize  quoquc 
regem  Ariliacem  vicit  a- 
cie,et  in  deditioncm  acce- 
pit.  Armeniam  Mino- 
rem  Deiotaro  Galatisc  re- 
gi  donavit,  quia  socius 
belli  Mithridatici  fuerat. 
Attalo  et  PhilxmeniPaph- 
lagoniam  reddidit,  Arist- 
archum  Colchis  regem 
imposuit.  Mox  ItursEOs  et 
Aralies  vicit:  etcum  ve- 
nisset  in  Syriam,  Seleu- 
ciam.  viciuam  Anliochix 
civitate.i..  libertate  dona- 
vit, eo  quod  regemTigra- 
nem  non  recepisset.  An- 
tiochensibus  obsides  red- 
didit, aliquantum  agro- 
rumDaphnenbibus  dedit, 
quo  lucus    ibi  spatiosior 


and  a  huge  sum  of  money : 
Syritty  P/ia'?jicia  and  Sophene 
were  taken  from  him^  besides 
six  thousand  talents  of  silzer, 
nvhlch  he  ivas  to  give  (he  Ro- 
man jieofile^  bf cause  he  had 
made  a  ivar  upon  the  Romans 
Hvithout  a  came* 

14.  Pompey  soon  of  ter  made 
ivar    upon    the    *J!bans^    and 
thrice    dtftated  their  King  O- 
rode.s  ;    at   la^t  being  wrought 
upon    by  letters  and  present i^^ 
he  granted  him  a   pardui    and 
peace.    He  Itkeivise  overthrew 
in  battle  Arthaces  king  of  Ibe- 
ria and  took  him  by  surrender. 
He  granted  the  J.etif<er  Armenia 
to  Deioturiifi,  King  of  Galalia, 
because  he  had  bten  his  assistant 
in  the  Miihridatick  war.      He 
restored  Paphlagonia  to  Atta- 
ins and  PiUmenes ;    hr    made 
Aristarchus  King  over  the  Col- 
chians.  Presently  afttr.  ht  con- 
quered fhe\Ituraa?is  and  Arabi- 
ans and  after  he  wa-^  come   iJito 
Syria.,  he prtsentt  d  Seitiu.'a,  ^ 
city  near  \Antiock.  with  its  li- 
berty., bccau-te  it  had  not  >  ,-cci- 
V(d    King    Tigranes»      /.r   re- 
stored their  hostages  to  the  An- 
tiochians,  and  gave  soinr  land 
to  the  \\Daphmnsian(s.   'hat  tiie, 
grove    there    might    be    made 


I.IBER  VI. 


ff 


*  A  people  betwixt  Ihc  Euxine  and  the  Ciispian  seas, 
f  A  people  on  the  nurth  ot'Judnea,  about  Mount  Lehanon. 
\  The  uictropolis  of  Syria,  upon  the  river  Orontcs,  not  far  froa 
iJie  sea. 

II  Daphne  was  a  pleasant  village  near  Antioch. 


fierct :  delcctatus  amoe- 
nitate  loci,  et  aquarum 
abundantia.  Inde  ad  Ju- 
dxara  transgressus,  Hie- 
rosolymam  caput  gentis 
teriio  mense  cepit,  duo- 
decim  millibus  Judaeorum 
Decisis,  cacteris  in  fidem 
acceptis.  His  gestis,  in 
Asiam  se  recepit,  C  fi- 
nem  antiquissimo  bello 
dedit. 

15.  Marco  Tullio  Ci- 
cerone, Caio  Antonio 
Consulibus,  anno  ab  ur- 
be  condita  Dclxxxix. 
Lucius  Sergius  Catilina, 
nobilissimi  generis  vir, 
sed  ingenii  pravissimi, 
ad  delendam  patriam  con- 
juravit,  cum  quibusdam 
Claris  quidem,  sed  auda- 
cibus  viris.  A  Cice- 
rone urbe  expulsus  est : 
focii  ejus  deprehensi,  in 
carcere  strangulati  sunt. 
Ab  Antonio  altero  Con- 
sule  Catilina  ipse  in  prx- 
lio  victus  est,  et  inter- 
fectus. 

16.  Sexcentesimo  no- 
nagesimo  anno  ab  urbe 
condita,  D.  Junio  Sila- 
no,  ct  L.  Mura:na  Con- 
sulibus, Metellus  de 
Creta  triumphavit:  Pom- 
peius de  bello  Piratico  et 
Milhridatico.  Nulla  un- 
qaam  triumphi  pom  pa 
similis  fuit ;  ducti  sunt 
anteejuscurrum  filiusMi- 
thridatis,  filius  Tigranis, 


more  spacious^  being  mightily 
taken  with  the  pleamntness  of 
the  place  .^  and  the  plenty  ofitni- 
ter.     Going  from  thence  to  Ju- 
dea^    he    took  Jerusalem^    the 
metropolis    of  the   nation.,    in 
three  months  ;  killing  12  thou- 
sand of  the  Jews.,  the  rest  be- 
ing admitted  to  Quarter,     Af- 
ter he   had  done  the.^e   things^ 
he  withdrew  himself  into  Asia, 
andputanendto  ih\?,  long  war. 
15.  When  Marcus  Tullius 
Cicero  and  C.  Antonius  were 
Consuls,  in  the  year  from  the 
building  of  the   city  689,  Lu- 
cius Sergius  Catilina,  a  man  of 
a  very  noble   extraction,  but  a 
very  perverse  disposition,  con- 
spired with   some  famous    in- 
deed,  but  daring  men,  to    de- 
stroy   his    country.      He    was 
forced  from  the  city  by  Cicero  : 
his  accompdices    being    seized 
were  strangled  in  prison.    Cat- 
aline  himself  was  defeated  in 
battle,    and  slain  by  the  otfier 
Consul  Antonius* 


16.  In  the  690th  year  from 
the  building  of  the  city,  V,  Ju- 
nius   Stlanus   and  L.  Murcena 
being    Coiisuls,    Metellus   tri- 
umphed over  Crete ;  Pompey, 
vpon  account  of  the  Piratick 
and   Miihridatick    war,      Ao 
pomp    of  a    triumph  was  ever 
like  it.      The  son  of  Mthrida- 
tes,  the  son  of  Tigranes,  and 
Aristohulus  King  cf  the  Jewsy 
were  led  deform;  his  chariot;  a 


98  EUTROPIl 

AristobuUi»   rex    Judxo-  vast  deal  o/ money,    sT^d   a., 

rum:  prxlata  ingens  pe-  v'Jxi'c  v,e,ghtofgoldands,l. 

cunia,  auri  atque  argen-  ver  ,»as   earned  before  lum. 

ti      infinitum       pondus.  M  thi,  time  there -wa.  no  area 

Hoc  tempore  nullum  per  ^«ar     throughout     the     tvho/e 

orbem    teirarum    grave  -world. 

bellum  erat.  ^      ,  j-        ,1,. 

17.  Anno  urbis  condi-         \7.    In   the  y^^rfrom  'he 
tx  DCxciii.   Caius  Julius    building  oj  the  city  69b,  Ca,m 
Cxsar,  qui  postea  impe-    Juliu.  C<e.ar,  ivho   afterwards 
ravit,     cv.m     L.    Bibulo    wa.  Emperor,  was  made  Con- 
Consul   est    factus ;    de-    sul  with    L.    Btb,dus,    Gaul 
crela  ei  Gallia,  et  lUyri-    ««is  voted  hmi,  and  ^lly'C'im 
cum  cum  le^ionibus  de-    wit/t   ten   legiom.      He   Jir^t 
cem.   Is  primo  vicil  Hel-    con<,uercd   the  »Iielvetu,  who 
vetios,  qui  nunc  Sequani    are  now  called  ^eguam :  after 
apnellantur  ;    deinde  vi-    that  he  advanced  as  far  a«  the 
cendo  per  bella  gravissi-    iJnV/.A  ocean,  by  eonguertng 
ina,usnueadoceanumBri-    in  very  dangerom  wars.     Ue 
tannicim  processit.    Do-    corxguered  in  about  mne  years, 
muit    autem    annis   fere    all  Gaul   winch  .s  between  the 
ix.  omnem  Galliam,  qus    ^Jfl^,   the    nver    -Rj^»";'   '*' 
inter  Alpes,  flumen  Rho-    Rhme,  and  the  0^;«"'   «'"    " 
danum,    Rhenum   &  O-    extended, n circuit  o.OOm^es. 
ceanum  est,    &   circuitu    Jf^r  he  made  war  upon    he 
patet  ad  bis  tricies  cente-    Jirltons,  to   whom  *^/«;^  '"''; 
na  millia  passuum.     Bri-    not  so  much  as  the  "''"'' V'^ 
tannis  mox  bellum  intu-    Jiomans  was  known,  "«'^ '««* 
lit,  quibus   ante  eum  ne    them  after  he   ^^^'^J^'I^'J^^ 
nomen  quidem  Romano-    them  /;'*«'«'-;/'  'f'/^ 
rum  cognitum  erat;    &   s'" of  them.     f'-"'f<^"{"; 
eos  quoque  victos,   obsi-    Gaul,  by  way  oftnbute,  yea,- 
dibus'    acceptis.    stipen-    '^  t-100  f,«.», .  Wn^^  A   '• 
diarios  fecit.     Gallic  au-    sand  sesterces  ;   ««'^  «;'°  f^;'- 
tern   tributi   nomine  an-    the  Germans  beyond  the  Rh.ne.,X 

*  The  inhabitants  of  the  country  now  railed  Swisserland. 

+  see  my  notes  upon  the  ''f^-f '^«^::,,^' Jl ,"  con,™en.aries.     He 

tThis  is  false,  as  ,s  plam  f'^V^'^^/hepas.ed the  Rhine  twice. 

did  not  so  much  as  stnke  a  s  roke,  '  >»=  ^n-m  «-hat  ou.-  author  say^ 

it,  which  it  i>^  plain  he  did  not  any  more  than  Eutropius. 


LIBER  VI. 


5» 


mium  imperavit  sesterti- 
um  quadringeiuies:  Ger- 
manosq ;  irans  Rhenum 
aggressus,  immanissimis 
pixliis  vicit.  Inter  tot 
successus  ter  male  pug- 
iiavit ;  Apud  Arvernos 
semel  prxsens,  et  ab- 
sens  ill  Germania  bis: 
nam  legati  ejus  duo,  Ti- 
lurius  et  Aurunculeius, 
per  insidias  csesi  sunt. 

18,  Circa  eadem  tem- 
pera, anno  urbis  conditx 
Dcxcvii.   Marcus  Licini- 
us  Crassus,  collega  Cnaei 
Pompeii  Magni  in  Con- 
sulatu    secundo,    contra 
Parthos    missus  est :    et 
cum    circa  C arras    con- 
tra   omina    et     auspicia 
dimicasset,      a      Surena 
Orudis  regis  duce  victus, 
ad  postremum    interfec- 
lus   est,  cum  filio  claris- 
simo    et    prxatantisaimo 
juvene.     Reliquix   exer- 
citus    per    C.    Cassium 
Quxstorem  servalx  sunt, 
qui  singulari  animo  per- 
ditas    res   tanta     virtute 
restituit,  ut  Persas  redi- 
ens     trans    EupUratem, 
crebris  prxliis  vinceret. 

19.  Hinc  jam  bellum 
civile  successit,  execran- 
dnm  5c  lacrymabile  ;  qno, 
prarter  calainitates  qux 
praeliis  acciderunt,  etiam 


conquered  them  in  prodigious 
battles,  Amongst  S9  many  suc- 
cesses^ he  fought  three  times 
unfortunately,  once  in  person 
among  the  Jrverniy  and  tivice^ 
when  absent,  in  Germajiy ;  for 
his  two  lieutenants,  Titurius 
end  Auru7iculeius  ivere  taken 
off  by  an  ambuscade* 


18.    About    the   same  time, 
in  the  year  from  the  city's  be- 
ing built  697,    Marcus   Lici- 
nius  Crassus,    the  colleague  of 
Cn£us   Fompey  the  Great  in 
his  second  Consulate,  tjjs  sent 
against    the    Parthians ;     and 
fighting    them    about    Carra;, 
coJitraiy  to  the  omens  and  aus- 
pices, he  was  defeated  by   Su- 
rena, a  general  of  Ki?ig  Oro' 
dcs,  and  at  last  slain  with  his 
son,  a  most  famous  and  extra- 
ordinary young  man.      The  re- 
mains of  the  army  were  saved 
by    C.   Cassius    th^     Qiiaesior, 
who    wc^h    singular  resolution 
restored  the  ruinous  affliirs  cf 
the  Komdnswith  so  much  con- 
duct,   that    returning    beyond 
Euphrates,    he  overthrew  the 
Persians  in  several  battles, 

19.  Upon  this  the  civil  war 
followed,  an  execrable  and  la- 
mentable  war  ;  inwhich,  besides 
theJiaVoc  that  happened  in  the 
several  battles,  *  the  for  tune  of 


*  Our  author  means  the  form  of  government  was  changed  fi-om  that 
•fa  popular  state,  to  an  absolutt.  monarchy. 


10« 


EUrROPlI 


Romani  nominis  fortuna 
mutata  est.    Casarenim, 
rediens    a  Gallia   victor, 
coepit  deposcere  alterum 
Consulatum;  atque,  cum 
sine  dubietate  aliqua  de- 
feirctur,  contradictum  est 
a    Marcello   Consule,    a 
r>ibuIo,     a    Pompeio,    a 
Calone;  jussusqiie  dimis- 
sis  exercitibus  ad  urbem 
redire  :  propter  qiiam  in- 
juriam  ab   Arimino,  ubi 
milites  congregatoshabe- 
bat,    adversum    palriam 
cum  exercitu  venit.  Con- 
sules  cum  Pompeio,  Sc- 
natusque    omnis,     atque 
universa  nobilitas  ex  ur- 
be  fugit,  et  in  Graeciam 
transivit  ;  apud  Epirum, 
Macedoniam,    Achaiam, 
Pompeio    duce,     contra 
Cxsarem  bellum  paravit. 
20.  Caesar,  vacuam  ur- 
bem   ingressus   Dictato- 
rem  ie  fecit,  inde  Hispa- 
nias  petiit.     Ibi  Pompeii 
exercitus  validissimos  et 
fortissimos,    cum   tribus 
ducibus,  L.  Afranio,  M. 
Petreio,  M.  Varrone,  su- 
peravit.     Inde    reversus, 
in     Graeciam    transivit ; 
adversum  Pompeium  di- 


the  Roman  name  too  was  chan^ 
ged.  For  Cxsar  returning 
victorious  from  Gaul,  begun  to 
demand  another  Coiisulahifi ; 
and  as  it  was  given  him  without 
any  scru/ile,  opposition  waft 
made  to  the  matter  by  Mar- 
cellus  the  Consul,  by  Bibulus, 
by  Pompey  and  by  Cato  ;  and 
he  ordered  to  disband  his  aj-mies 
and  return  to  town  ;for  which 
injury  he  came  from  Arimi- 
7ium,  where  he  had  some  sol- 
diers drawn  together,  with  a 
body  of  troops  against  his  coun- 
try.  The  Consuls,  with  Pom- 
pey and  all  the  Senate,  and 
the  whole  nobility,  fied  out  of 
the cityliomt^and went  over  into 
Greece;  and  in  Epire,  Mace- 
donia  and  Achaia,  under  Pom- 
pey their  general,  levied  war 
against  Casar, 

20.  Casar  entering  the  city 
now  empty,*  made  himself 
Dictator,  and  after  that  went 
for  Spain,  There  he  reduced 
very  powerful  and  very  strong 
armies  of  Pompey* s,  with  the 
three  commanders  L,  Afranius, 
M,  Pctreius  and  M,  Varro, 
Returning  from  thence,  he 
went  over  into  Greece,  fought 
against  Pompey,  but  was    de- 


LTBER  VI. 


lOl 


*  Caesar  was  not  Dictator  tiU  after  his  return  from  Spkin,  and  con- 
tinued iu  that  office  but  1 1  days,  and  was  then  made  Consul.  Madam 
Dacier  says  Eutropius  is  mistaken  in  saying  Caesar  made  himself  Dic- 
tator; it  was  the  Senate  made  him  so;  as  if  those  few  of  the  Sena- 
tors that  staid  at  Rome,  could,  with  any  proprity  be  called  the  Senate; 
it  was  at  best  but  the  rump  of  the  Senate;  iha  whole  body  almost  w»» 
with  Poxnpey. 


micavit,  primo  pr«lio 
victus  est,  et  fugatus  :  c- 
vasit  tamen,  quia  nocte 
interveniente  Pompeius 
sequi  noluit ;  dixitque 
Caesar,  nee  Pompeium 
scire  vincere,  et  illo  tan- 
tum  die  se  potuisse  su- 
perari.  Deinde  inThessa- 
lia  apud  Palseopharsalum 
produclis  utrinque  ingen- 
libuscopiisdimicaverunt. 
Pompeii  acies  habuit  xl. 
millia  peditum,  equitum 
in  sinisiro  cornu  vii.  mil- 
lia, in  dextro  d.  prjete- 
rea  totius  Orieniis-  auxi- 
lia;  totamque  nobilita- 
tem,  innumeros  Senato- 
res,  Prjciorios,  Consula- 
res,  Sc  qui  magnorum 
jam  populorum  victores 
fuissent.  Caesar  in  acie 
sua  tiabuit  peditum  non 
integra  xxx.  millia,  equi- 
tes  mille. 

21.  Nunquam  adhuc 
Romanx  copix  in  unum 
Deque  majores,  neque 
melioribus  ducibus  con- 
venerant,  totum  terra- 
rum  orbem  facile  subac- 
turac,  si  contra  Barbaros 
ducerentur :  pugnatum 
lamen  est  ingenti  con- 
tentione,  victusque  ad 
poUremum  Pompeius,  & 
castra  ejus  direpta  sunt : 


feated  in  the  first  bittle,    and 
forced  to  fly  ;  yet  he  got  off  be- 
cause night  coming  on,    Pom- 
pey   would  not   pursue    him ; 
and  Coesar  said  tJiat   Pompey 
neither  knew  how    to    conquer, 
and    that  he  could  only    have 
been  conquered  that  day.     Af- 
ter that  they  fought   at  PaUo^ 
pharsalus     in    Thessaly\  with 
great  armies  drawn  out  on  both 
sides.       Pompey*s   army    had 
40,000    foot  and    in  the    left 
wing  7000  horse,    in  the  right 
500,  besides  the  auxiliaries  of 
alk  the  Jiast ;  and  all  the  nobi- 
lity,    many    Senators,    Prato- 
rian  and  Consular  gentlemen  ; 
and  who  had  been  already  the 
conquerors    of  great    nations, 
Casar  had  in  his  army  not  quite 
30,000  foot,   and  a  thousand 
horse. 


2 1 .  JsTever  as  yet  had  great- 
er Roman  armies  met  together,, 
nor  under  better  commanders, 
that  would  have  easily  subdued 
the  whole  world,  if  they  had 
been  led  against  the  Barba^ 
rians  :  they  fought  with  great 
eagerness  ;  and  Pompey  at  last 
was  conquered,  and  his  camp 
plundered:  he  being  forced  to 
fly,  went  for  Alexandria,  to 
get  assistance  from  the  King  of 


f  Our  author  is  a  little  overseen  in  magnifying  the  armies  50  much; 
C-esir's  was  smaller  than  even  be  makes  it,  not  exceeding  22,000 
men. 

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idJ 


ipse  fugatus,  Alex  andri- 
am  petiit,  ut  a  rege 
-figypti,  cui  tutor  a  Sena- 
tu  datus  fuerat  propter 
juvenilem  ejus  «tatem, 
acciperet  auxilia:  qui  for- 
lunam  magis  quam  ami- 
citiam  sequutus,  occidit 
Pompeium,  caput  ejus  8c 
annulum  Cacsari  misit, 
quo  conspectu,  Cx'oar 
etiam  lacrymas  fudisse 
dicitur,  tanti  viri  intuens 
caput,  &  generi  quondam 
sui. 

22.  Mox  Cxsar  Alcx- 
andriam  venit,  ipsi  qi>o- 
que  Ptolemaeus  parare  vo- 
luit  insidias;  qua  causa 
regi  bellum  illatum  est: 
victus  in  Nilo  periit,  in- 
ventumque  est  corpus  c- 
jus  cum  lorica  aurca. 
Csesar  Alexandria  poti- 
tus,  regnum  Cleopatrx 
dcdit,  Ptolemxi  sorori, 
cum  qua  consuetudinem 
stupri  habuerat.  Rediens 
inde  Caesar,  Pharnacem 
Miihridatis  Magni  filium 
qui  Pompeio  in  aux ilium 
apud  Thessaliam  fuerat, 
rebellantem  in  Ponto,  & 
multas  Populi  Romani 
provincias  occupantem, 
vicit  acie :  postea  ad  mor- 
tem coegit. 

23.  Inde  Romam  re- 
gressus  tertio  se  Consu- 
lem  fecit  cum  M.  jEmi- 


^SyM)  to  liJhom  he  had  been 
assigned  as  a  tutor  by  the  Se^ 
nate^  by  reason  ©/"  his  youthful 
age ;  who  regarding  fortune 
more  than  friendships  slew 
Pomfiey^  and  sent  his  head 
%nd  ring  to  Casar  ;  at  the  sight 
ofwhich^  Casar  is  said  even  to 
have  shed  tears,  when  he  be- 
held  the  head  cf  so  great  a  man^ 
and  formerly  hit  son-in-law» 


22.  Soon  after  Casar  came 

to  Alexandria,  Ptolemy    resol* 

ved  to  lay  a  plot  for  him  too  ; 

for   which    cause  a    war    vjaa 

made  upon  the  King,  Being 
defeated  in  battle,  he  was  lost 
in  the  JSl'ile,  and  his  body  found 
in  a  golden  coat  of  mail,  ds' 
sar  having  carried  Jllexandria, 
gave  the  kingdom  to  Cleopatra, 
Ptolemy's  sister,  with  whom 
he  had  had  a  lewd  commerce» 
Caesar  retumifig  from  thence, 
defeated  in  battle,  Pharnaces 
the  son  of  Mithridates  the 
Great,  who  had  been  to  assist 
Pompey  in  Thessaly,  rebelling 
in  Pontus,  and  seizing  upon 
many  provinces  of  the  Roman 
people :  afterwards  *he  forced 
him  to  death, 

23.  j^fter  that  returning  to 
Pome,  he  made  himself  a  third 
time  Consul  with  Mmilius  Le^ 


*  Others  give  a  dliTerent  accouut  of  his  deatk. 


I 


UoLepidoqui  ei  Magister 
equitum  Dictatori  ante 
annum  fuerat.  Inde  in 
Africam  profectus  est,  u- 
bi  infinita  nobilitas  cum 
Juba  Mauritanise  rege 
bellum  reparaverat.  Du- 
cesautem  Romani  erant, 
P.Cornelius  Scipio,ex  gc- 
nere  antiquissimo  Scipio- 
nis  Africaui,(hicetiam  so- 
cer  Magni  Pompeii  fue- 
rat) M.Petreius,Q  Varus, 
M.PorciusCato,L.Corne- 
lius  Faustus,  Syllae  Dic- 
tatoris  filius.  Contra 
hos  commissopraclio,post 
multas  dimicaliones  vic- 
tor fuit.  Cato,  Scipio, 
Petreius,  Juba,  ipsi  se 
occiderunt:  Faustus  Pom- 
peii gener  a  Cacsare  in- 
terfectus  est. 

24.  Post  annum  Caesar 
Romam  legressus,  quar- 
tum  se  Consulem  ftcii;  et 
statim  ad  Hispanias  est 
proftclus,  ubi  Pompeii 
filii,  Cnxus  &  Scxtus, 
ingens  beilum  reparave- 
rant.  Multa  praclia  fue- 
runt:  ultimuui  })railium  a- 
pud  Muiidum  civitatem, 
in  quo  adeo  C  xsar  pene 
victus  est,  ut  fugieniibus 
suis,  se  voUierit  occidere  ; 
nepost  lantam  rei  milita- 
risgIoriam,in  potestatem 
adolescenlium,  naius  an- 
nos  sex  et  quintjuaginta, 
veniret.  Denique  repa- 
Patis  suis,  vicit,   et  Pom- 


pidus,  who  had  been  master  of 
the  horse  to  him  a  year  before, 
when  Dictator.  After  that  he 
went  into  Africa,  where  an  in^ 
finite  number  of  the  nobility^ 
with  Juba  the  King  of  Mauri' 
tania,  had  renewed  the  war» 
The  Roman  generals  were  P» 
Cornelius  Scipio,  of  the  moat 
ancient  family  of  Scifiio  Afri^ 
canus,  (he  too  had  been  father^ 
in-law  of  Pompey  the  Great) 
M.  Petreius,  Q,  Varrus,  M. 
Porcius  Cato,  L.  Corneliut 
Faustus,  son  of  Sylla  the  Dic^ 
tator»  In  a  battle  fought  cz- 
goinst  them,  after  many  skir* 
misheSy  he  was  conqueror»  Ca- 
to,  Scipio,  Petreius  and  Juba 
slew  themselves  :  Faustus,  the 
son-in-law  of  Pompey y  was 
slain  by  Casar, 

24.  Cxsar  returning  c  year 
after  to  Rome,  made  himself 
Consul  a  fourth  time  ;  and  im" 
mediately  went  to  Spain,  where 
Pompty's  sons,  Cnceus  and 
Sex!ui  had  again  raised  a 
formidable  iiur»  There  were 
many  battles  fou'-lit.  7'hr  last 
battle  was  at  the  city  Alunda, 
in  wfiich  Cicsar  was  so  7iear 
co?i:/uer(  d,  that  his  men  gh- 
ing  ground  he  was  inindtd  to 
kill  himself,  lest,  after  so  great 
glory  got  in  war,  he  should 
come  into  the  hands  of  ihese 
young  men,  wlien  7iow  5S 
years  old.  Finally,  rail:/ ing 
his  men  J  he  got  the  day^  and 


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peii  filius  major  occisus 
est,  minor  fugit- 

25.  Inde  Caesar,  bellis 
civilibus  toto  orbe  com- 
positis,  Romam  rediit : 
agere  insoleiitius  coepit, 
et  contra  consuetudinem 
Romanx  libcrtatis.  Cum 
ergo  8c  honores  ex  sua 
voluntate  piacstaret,  qui 
a  populo  antea  defereban- 
tur,  nee  Senatui  ad  se  ve- 
nienti  assurgeret,  aliaque 
regia  ac  pene  tyrannica 
faceret,  conjuratum  est 
in  eum  a  Ix.  vel  amplius 
Senatoribus,  equitib\is- 
que  Romanis.  Prxcipui 
fuerunt  inter  conjuratos 
duo  Bruli,  eo  gencre 
Bruti  qui  primu3  Romx 
Consul  est  factus,  et  re- 
ges  expukrat :  C.  Cassi- 
U3  et  Servilius  Casca. 
Ergo  Cxsar,  cum  Sena- 
tus  die  quadam  inter  cae- 
teros  venisset  ad  curi- 
am, Iribus  el  viginti  vul- 
ncribus  confossus  est. 


Pomfiey's  elder  sm  was  sUtin; 
the  younger  got  off» 

25.  Jfter  tliat  Ccesar  having 
now  tnade  an  end  of  the  civil 
Hvars  ail  the  world  over,  retur- 
ned to  Rome,  and  begun  to 
carry  himself  very  insolently y 
and  contrary  to  the  custom  oj 
the  Roman  liberty.  Where- 
fore, since  he  row  disposed  of 
all  offices  according  to  his  own 
pleasure,  which  were  given  be- 
fore  by  the  people,  and  woidd 
not  rise  up  to  the  Senate,  when 
coming  to  him,  and  did  other 
things  like  a  King,  and  al- 
most like  a  tyrant,  a  conspira- 
cy Tjas  formed  against  him,  by 
60  or  more  Senators  and  Ro- 
man knights.  The  chief  among 
the  conspirators  were  the  two 
Bruti  of  the  family  of  Brutus  yVjh9 

was  fir  St  madi'  Consul  of  Rome, 
and  had  expelled  the  royal  fa- 
mily ;  C  Cassias  and  Servi- 
lius  Casca.  Wherefore  Casar 
coming  among  the  rest  to  the 
Senate  house  on  a  certain  day 
of  the  Senate's  meeting,  *was 
stabbed  with  three  and  twenty 
wounds. 


♦  Thus  fell  the  mighty  Caesar,  who  for  great  parts  and  abilities,  and 
in  siiort,  for  ail  the  qualifications  of  a  hero  but  that  of  honesty,  was, 
pcriiaps,  at  least  e  (Ual  to  any  amongst,  tlie  sons  of  men.  That  bane 
of  S' eat  and  elevated  minds,  ambition  was  his  dirhng  vice,  m  whion 
all  his  other,  both  good  an»i  ill,  qualities  centered,  and  which  at  last^ 
ended  in  his  own  ruin,  with  tb.e  downfal  of  the  liberty  and  glory  o. 
Rome;  for  the  li-ure  the  Romans  made  after  this  unhappy  revolu- 
tion v.as  but  the  shadow  of  their  former  grandeur,  lie  highly  dc- 
served,  no  doubt,  the  fate  he  met  with,  and  to  have  died  by  t.ie  han«is 
of  the  common  executioner,  rather  than  those  of  gentlemen,  ti,e 
crime  he  was  cuilty  of,  being,  perhaps,  the  greatest  human  naturtr 


EUTROPIl 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORL£  ROMANCE. 


^:^ 


LIBER  VII. 


AN^ 


A 


.NNO  urbis  dcc.  fere  t^FTER    desar  was   s:am 

ac  nono,   interfecto   Cx-  in  the  year  q/  the  city  709,  the 

sare,  bella  civilia  repara-  civil  wars  were  renewed  ;  for 

ta  sunt,  percussoribus  e-  the  Senate  favoured  the  assas^ 

nim  Cxsaris    Senatus  fa-  sins  rf  Casar  :  the  Consul  .^n- 

vebat :  Antonius  Consul,  tony,    one   of    Casar' s  party y 

partium    Cacsaris,     civili  endeavoured  to  crush  them  by 

belloopprimere  eoscona-  a    civil  war.      Wherefore  the 

balur.     Ergo  turbata  Re-  Republic  being  all  in  confusion^ 

publica,  multa  Antonius  Antony  committing  many  vil- 


is  capable  of.  But  there  wa?  no  other  way  to  coane  at  a  man  guarded 
by  a  power  for  which  the  whole  world  besides  was  not  a  match  ;  and 
therefore  they  thought  they  might  proceed  against  him  in  the  way  they 
did.  The  learned  Dean  Prideaux  has  discovered  Casar  to  be  a 
Prince,  and  so  he  was  just  in  the  same  sense  that  Oliver  Crsmwell  vra» 
a  King.  They  were,  indeed,  a  sort  of  Princes,  but  unhappily  for 
the  memory  of  them  both,  of  their  own  making  onl}\  Such  men  may 
tanoy  themselves  to  be,  and  others  may  call  them  Princes;  but  their 
right  name  is  villains,  to  be  ranked  with  pirates,  robbers  and  mur- 
derers, for  to  that  class  of  men  they  1)elong,  aud  desene  no  better 
treatment,  unless  success  can  be  supposed  to  sanctify  villainy.  How- 
ever, the  Dean  very  fairly  owns  he  justly  had,  for  the  rewaril  of  hi« 
malice  and  ambit-un,  the  destruction  by  which  he  fell,  and  further 
«ays,  tliat  he  was  a  terrible  scourge  in  the  hand  of  God,  for  the  punish- 
ment of  the  wickedness  of  that  age,  and  that  he  ought  to  be  reput*4 
•h«  greatest  pe»t  »nd  plague  that  mankind  had  thea  thereia. 


lOG 


KUTROPJI 


scelera     committens,     a 
Senaiu    hostis    judicatus 
est :  missi  ad  eum  perse- 
cjuendum    duo   Consules 
Panba  et  Hirtius,  et  Octa- 
vianus,  adolescens  awnos 
xviiii.  naius,  Cacsaris  ne- 
pos,  quern  ille  lestamen- 
10  hacredem  rtliquerat,  et 
nomcn  suum  ferre  jusse- 
rat :    hie   est  qui  postea 
Augustus   est  dictus,    et 
reruin    poliius.       Quare 
proi'ecti  contra  Antonium 
tres  duces  vicerunt  eum. 
Kvenit  tanien  ut  victores 
Consules  ambo  moreren- 
tur :    quare  tres   exerci- 
tus  uni  Caesari  paruerunt. 
2.  Fugdtus   Antonius, 
amisso  exercitu,    confu- 
gitad  Lepidum,  qui  Cx- 
saii     mai^ister    equitum 
fuerat,  Sc  turn  copias  mi- 
liium  grandes  habebat,  a 
quo  susceplus  est.     Mox 
Le;>ido    operam     dante, 
Csisar   cum  Antonio  pa- 
rem   fecit :  &  quasi  vin^ 
dicaturus  patris  sui  mor- 
tem, a  quo  per  testamen- 
tum     fuerat     adoptatus, 
Romam    cum     exercitu 
profectus   est ;    extorsit- 
que  ut  sibi  xx.  anno  Con- 
sulatus    daretur.      Sena- 
turn  proscripsil  cum  An- 


lanits,    'Was  declared  an  enemy 
by  the  Senate  ;  t/ie  two  Consuls 
Pansa  and  Biriius,  and  Octa- 
vianus^  a  young  man  1 8  years 
old,     *Ca:sar's   nephew     ivhovi 
he  had  left  his  heir  in  his  will, 
and  had  ordered   to   bear    his 
name,  were  sent    to  fall  ufion 
him.   This  is  he  who  was  after- 
wards   called    Augustus,    and 
enjoyed    the    su/ireme    flower, 
IVhereJore  these  three  generals 
marching  against  Antony^  de- 
feated him.    It  hap/iened,  not- 
ivithstanding  that  the  two  vic- 
tor ious\  Consuls  lost  their  lives, 
Wherejfore     the    three    arinics 
were    now    subject    to  Casar 
only, 

2.  AntoJiy  being  routed,  and 
losing  his  army,  fed  to  Lcfii- 
dus,  who  had  been  master  of 
the  horse  to  Casar^  and  then 
had  a  considerable  army  of 
soldiers,  by  whom  he  was  re- 
ceived. By  and  by  Le/iidus 
giving  his  assistance  for  it, 
Casar  made  a/ieace-  with  Anto- 
ny, and  as  destg)^ing  to  re- 
venge the  death  of  his  father, 
by  whom  he  had  been  adopted  by 
will,  he  marched  to  Rome  with 
his  army:  and  procured  by 
main  force  that  the  Consulate 
was  given  him  in  his  twentieth 
year.  With  Antony  and  Lc- 
pidus  he  fir  ascribed  the  Senate^ 


LIBER  VII. 


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*  He  vvas  the  grandson  of  Caesar's  sister. 

f  And  it  was  suspected  they  were  taken  off  by  the  villainy  of  Oc- 
tavianus,  tiiat  he  might  reuiaU  wle  possesior  aad  ina^te»  of  the  who!? 


tonio  &  Lepido,  &  rem- 
publicam  armis  tenere 
coepit :  per  hos  etiam 
Cicero  orator  occisus  est, 
multique  alii  nobiles. 

3.  Interia  Brutus  & 
Cassius,  interfeclores 
Caesaris,  ingens  bellum 
moverunt ;  erant  enim 
per  Macedoniam  8c  Ori- 
entem  multi  exercitus 
quos  occupaverunt.  Pro- 
fecti  igitur  contra  eos 
Csesar  Octavianus  Au- 
gustus, et  M.  Antonius, 
(remanserat  enim  ad  de- 
fendendam  Italiam  Lepi- 
dus)  apud  Philippos  Ma- 
cedonisi  urbem,  contra 
eos  pugnaverunt.  Piimo 
praelio  victi  sunt  Antonius 
et  Cxsar  :  peviii  tamcn 
dux  nobilite«tis  CaLisius ; 
fecuT)(io,  Brutui.  et  inii- 
nita  liObilitas,  qu^c  cir^t 
ilUs  bclluin  i^essercit  ;  au 
sic  iiuer  eos  divisa  est 
respublica,  u:  A'lg'istus 
Hispanias,  Galiias,  Itali- 
am teneret ;  Antonius 
Asiam,  Pontum,  Orien- 
tcm.  Sed  intra  Italiam 
L.  Antonius  Consul  bel- 
lum civile  commoiit,  fra- 
ter  ejus  qui  cum  Cacsare 
contra  Brutum  £c  Cas- 
sium  dimicaverat :   is  a- 


and  began  now  to  seize  the  go- 
vernment  by  force  of  ar7ns.  By 
these  too  the  orator  *  Cicero  was 
slain,  and  many  other  noblc' 
men, 

3.  In  the  mean  time  Brutus 
ajid  Cassius,the  killers  of  Casar, 
raised  a  great  war  ;  for   there 
were  several   ar?nies  in  Mace^ 
doniOj    and  the   East,    which 
they    seized.      Wherefore    Cae- 
sar Octavianus  ^Augustus,  and 
M.  Antony   marching   against 
them,  (for   Lepidus  staid  be» 
hind  to  defend   Italy  J  fought 
them    at    Philipfii,    a   city    of 
Macedonia,     In  the  first  battle 
Antony  and  Ccesar  were  worst- 
ed:    yet  Cassius,  the  head   of 
ihi!  mobility,  fell ;  in  the  second 
Bruiu3,    and  an  ivfnite  num- 
ber of  the  nobility,  which  had 
carried  on  the  war  with  them  ; 
and  the  empire  was  so  divided 
am-mgst   them,  that    Augustus 
should  have   Spain,   Gaul   and 
Italy  ;    Antony,  Asia,  Pontus 
and  the  East,    But  in  Italy,  L. 
Antony  the  Consul  raised  a  ci- 
vil war,    the    brother  of  him, 
who  with  Casar  had  fought  a- 
i^ainst    Brutus    and    Cassius, 
he  was  defeated  and  taKcn  at 
Periisia,  a  city  of  Tuscia,  but 
not  slain. 


*  For  which  the  lives  of  the  tiiree  hutchers»  if  they  had  3C0  a-picce, 
could  not  have  made  a  sufficient  atonement.  ^ 

t  Our  author  is  a  litUe  too  much  in  haste  ;  he  had  not  the  tit.e  of 
Augustus  till  many  years  after  this. 


.-^JA, 


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EUTROPII 


pud  Perusiam  Tuscix 
civitatem  victiis  &  capius 
est,  neque  occius. 

4.  Interim  a  Sexto 
Pompeio,  Cnici  Pompeii 
Magni  filio,  ingens  bellum 
in  Sicilia  commotum  est, 
his  qui  superfuerant  ex 
partibus  Bruii  Cassiique 
ad  eum  confluentibus. 
Bellalum  per  Cxsarem 
Auguslum  Octavianum, 
fc  M.  Antonium,  adver- 
sus  Sextum  Pompcium  : 
pax    p'jstremo    convenit. 

5.  Eo  tempore  M. 
Agrippa  in  Aquitania 
rem  prospere  gessil,  8c  L. 
Ventidius  Bassus  irrum- 
pentes  in  Syriam  Persas 
tribus  prxliis  vicit.  Paco- 
rum  regis  Orodis  filium 
interfecit,  eo  ipso  die  quo 
dim  Orodes  Persarum 
rex,  per  ducem  Surenam, 
Crassum  occiderat.  Hie 
primus  de  Parthis  justis- 
simum  triumphum  Ro- 
inx  egit. 

4.  Interim  Pompeius 
pacem  rupit :  Sc  navali 
praclio  victus,  fugiens  ad 
Asiam,  interfectus  est. 
Antonius,  qui  Asiam  et 
Orientem  tenebat,  re- 
pudiata  sorore  Cacsaris 
Augusti  Octaviani,  Cle- 
opatram  reginam  ^gypti 
duxit  uxorem.  Contra 
Cersas  ipse  etiam  pug- 
navit ;  primis  eos  prxliis 
vicit ;   regredi(Mis  tamen 


4.  In  the  mean  time  a  great 
•tvar  nvas  raised  in  Sicily  by  Sex- 
tus  Pom/ieius^  son  of  Cnxus 
Pompey  the  Great ;  those  that 
were  left  of  the  party  of  Bru* 
tus  and  Cass ius  flocking  in  to 
him.  The  war  was  managed 
by  C<issar Augustus  Octavianusy 
and  J\L  Antony^  against  Sex- 
tus  Pomfiey,  At  last  a  peace 
was  agreed  upon, 

5.  jlt  that  ti?ne  M,  Agrippa 
managed  matters  successfully 
in  jiquitain  :  and  L.  Ventidius 
Bassus  defeated  in  three  battles 
the  Persians  breaking  into  Sy» 
ria,  and  slew  Pacorus,  the 
son  of  Orodes  their  King^  upon 
the  very  day  on  which  formerly 
Orodes^  King  of  the  Persians 
had  slain  Crassus^  by  his  gene- 
ral  Surena.  He  was  the  first 
who  hady  and  very  reasonably^ 
a  triumph  at  Rome  aver  the 
Parthians. 

6.  In  the  mean  time  Pompey 
broke  the  peace^  and  being  de- 

feated  in  a  fght  at  sea^  and 
flying  to  Asia^  he  was  there 
slain,  Antony^  who  held  Asia 
and  the  Eaft,  divorcing  the  sis' 
ter  of  Casar  Augustus  Octavi-  f 
alius,  married  Cleopatra,  the 
Queen  of  Egypt.  He  likewise 
fought  against  the  Persians, 
and  defeated  them  in  the  first 
battles.  Yet  in  his  return  he 
was  distressed  by  famine  end 


LliJER  VII. 


lO» 


fame  et  pesiilentia  labo- 
ravit :  et  cum  instarent 
Persx  fugienii,'  ipse  pro 
victo  recessit. 

7.  Ilic  quoque  ingens 
belhim  civile  commovit 
cogente  iixore  Cleopatra 
regina  iEgypii  ;  dum 
cupi dilate  nuilicbri  optat 
etiam  in  urbe  regnare. 
Victus  est  ab  Augusto, 
navali  pugna  clara  et  il- 
histri  apud  Aclium,  qui 
locus  in  Epiro  est :  ex 
qua  fugit  in  -^gyptum, 
et  desperatus  rebus,  cum 
omncs  ad  Auguslum  tran- 
sirent,  ipse  se  interemit. 
Cleopatra  sibi  aspidem 
adniisit,  et  veneno  ej\is 
extincia  est.  iEgyptus 
per  Octavianum  Augus- 
tuni  Imperio  Romano 
adjecta  est  ;  prxpositus- 
que  ejus  factus  est  Cnacus 
Cornelius  GaJlus  ;  hunc 
primum  iEgyptus  Ro- 
manum  judiccm  habuit. 

8.  Ita  bellis  lolo  orbc 
confectis,Ocla\iaiiUs  Au- 
gustus Romatn  rcdiit 
xii.  annopostquamConsul 
fuerat.  Ex  eo  rempub- 
licam  per  xliv.  annos  so- 
lus obiinuii,  ante  enim, 
xii.  annis  cum  Antonio 
et  Lepido  tenueial.  Ita 
ab  initio  principalus  ejus 
usque  ad  tinein  Ivi.  anni 


pestilence  ;  and  as  the  Persians 
pursued  him  closely  in  his 
flight,  he  went  ojf  Jr^r  vau' 
(juished, 

7.  He  likewise  raised  a 
great  civil  war  ;  his  wife  Cle- 
opatra,  the  Queen  of  Egypt ^ 
putting  him  upon  it  ;  whilst, 
out  of  a  womanish  desire,  she 
aff^ccts  to  reign  in  the  city 
Rome.  *He  was  conquered 
by  Augustus,  in  a  famous  and 
illustrious  seafglit,  at  Actium, 
which  place  is  in  Empire  ;  from 
which  he  fled  into  Egypt,  and 
despairing  of  his  condition, 
since  all  now  went  over  to  Au' 
gustus,  he  slew  himself,  Cle- 
opatra applied  to  herself  an  asp, 
and  with  the  poison  thereof  was 
killed,  Egypt  was  added  to  the 
Roman  empire  by  Octavianus 
Augustus^  and  Cnxus  Cornelius 
Gallus  was  made  the  governor 
thereof.  This  was  the  frst 
Roman  governor  Egypt  hud. 


8.  Tims  the  wars  bein^r  end- 
cd  throughout  the  whole  world, 
Octavianus  Augustus  returned 
to  Roiucy  in  the  1 2fh  year  after 
he  had  been  made  Consul, 
After  that  he  Jiekl  the  govern- 
ment alone  for  44  years  ;  for 
he  had  he'.d  it  bijove  fo^  twelve 
years  with  Antony  end  fLepi- 
dus.  Thus  from  the  beginning 
of  his  governmtnt  to   the  end 


*  This  was  ill  the  7'M  year  of  Rome. 

f  Lepidus  haa  leen  laid  aiiue  iu  g  liLfore  tlie  Latile  of  Actium 


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fuerunt.  Obilt  autem 
Ixxiivi.  anno  morte  com- 
Jnuni  in  opj)pido  Campa- 
nix  Atella.  Homac  in 
Campo  Maitio  sepelitur ; 
\ir  qui  non  immerilo  ex 
inaxima  parte  Deo  simi- 
lis  est  pulatus  ;  neqiie  e- 
nim  facile  ullus  eo  aut  in 
bellis  felicior  fuir,  aut  in 
pace  moderatior.  Xliv. 
,annis,  quibus  solus  ges- 
sit  imperium,  civilissme 
^•ixit :  in  cunctos  libera- 
]is>>imus,  in  amicus  fidis- 
^imus;  quos  tantis  evexit 
honoribus,u!  pene  xqua- 
ret  fustigio  suo. 

^.  Nullo  tempore  ante 
res  Romana  magis  flo- 
ruit ;  nam  excepiis  civi- 
libus  bellis,  in  quibus  in- 
yicuis  fuit,  Romano  ad- 
jecit  imperio  iE^yptum, 
Cantabriam,  Dalmatiam 
saepe  ante  victam,  sed 
penitus  tunc  subacam  ; 
Pannoniam,  Aquitaniam, 
Illyricum,  Rhaeiam, 

V^indelicos  et  Salassos  in 
Alpibus,     omncs     Ponti 


of  it  were  56  years,  Ht  died 
in  his\  ^^T.h  year  a  natural 
dtaih^  in  Mtella^  a  ioivn  in 
Cam/iania,  Ih  lit  s  bur  ltd  in 
the  Camfius  Alar  tins  at  Rome  ; 
a  man  ivho  net  without  reason 
vjas  thought  in  a  great  measure 
like  a  \God ;  Jar  hardly  was 
there  any  ?uan  more  succesaful 
than  he  in  his  wars,  or  more 
moderate  in  peace.  He  lived 
iviih  great  moderation,  the  44 
ycarfi  in  which  he  held  the  e?n~ 
/lire  alone  ;  very  liberal  to  all, 
and  very  faithful  to  his  friends, 
whom  he  ruined  to  so  great 
honours^  that  he  almost  ecjualled 
them  to  his  own  height  of  dig- 
nity. 

9.  *The  Roman  state 
flourished  at  no  time  before 
him  more  ;  Jor  befsidcs  the  ci- 
vil wars,  in  which  he  was  in- 
vincible, he  added  to  the  Ro- 
man  empire  Egypt,  CanUibria, 
Dalmatian  which  had  been 
often  conquered  before,  but 
then  was  thoroughly  subdued  ; 
Fannonia,  jlr/uitaine,  Illyri- 
cum, Rhatiay  the  Vindelici 
and  Salassi  in  the  Jlps,  aUtke 
maritime  cities  of  Rout  us :  a- 


f  Itslioiild  be  thc76th. 

.i:  He  was  more  like  a  devil  than  aught  else  in  the  piosci iptioii,  ae- 
coruin-  to  the  account  Suetonius  -ives  of  him  tjowever  he  lived  to 
repent  ot  that,  and  so  much  mended  his  manners,  that  he  uanted 
iiothn.a:  bur  a  ri-ht  to  the  power  he  possessed,  to  gixe  him  a  title  to 
tht;  ohaiarier  ota  line  prince. 

*  Tlie  only  proper  trial  of  that  u'ould  have  heen  to  have  had  another 
Ajiiiiha  in  the  bowels  of  Italy,  with  100,000  men  at  hi^  heels.  It  is 
no  hard  matter,  I  think,  to  guess  what  would  then  have  become  of 
♦  rea:  and  his  slas  e«,  for  ihv  Uomans  weie  n^y/  uo  better 


LIBER  VII. 


Ill 


maritimas  civitatcs  :  in 
his  nobilissimas,  Bospo- 
rum  et  Fanticapicon. 
Vicit  autem  prxliis  Da- 
cos,  Germanorum  in- 
gentes  copias  cecidit ; 
ipse  quoque  trans  Albim 
fluviiim  submovit,  qui  in 
Barbarico  longe  ultra 
Riienum  est ;  hoc  tamen 
be  Hum  per  Urusum 
privignum  suum  admi- 
nistravit  ;  sicut  per  pri- 
vignum  Tiberium  alte- 
rum  Pannonicum,  quo 
bello  ccc.  millia  captivo- 
rum  exGermaniatranstu- 
lit,  et  super  ripam  Rheni 
in  Gallia  collocavit.  Ar- 
meniam  a  Parthis  rece- 
pit :  obsides,  quod  nulii 
antea  Persx  ei  dederunt : 
rcddiderunt  eliam  sitj^na 
Romana,  qiux  Crasso  vic- 
lo  ademerant. 

10.  Scylhrc  et  Indi, 
quibus  antea  Romanorum 
nomen  incogniium  fue- 
rat,  mui.era  et  legatos  ad 
eum  miserunt.  Galatia 
quoq  ;  sub  hoc  provincia 
facta  est,  cum  antea  reg- 
num  fuisset ;  primusque 
earn  M.  Lollius  pro  Prcc- 
tore  administravit.  Tan- 
to  autem  amore  etiam- 
pud  barbaros  fuit,  ut  re- 
ges  Populi  Romani  ami- 


?7wng    those    the   tnost  famous 
ones  of  \ Bosporus  and  Ranti. 
caption.      He  overthrew  too  in 
several    battles,  the    Dacians^ 
and  cut  off  huge  ar?nies  of  the 
Germans,    he   drove  than  too 
beyoJid  the  river  Elbe,    whic/t 
is  in   the  Barbariaii's  country, 
a  great  way  beyond  the  Rhine ; 
yet  he  managed   this    war  by 
his  \stepson  Drusus,  as  the  c~ 
ther  in  Ramionia    by  his  other 
stepson  Tiberius,  in  which  war 
he  removed  300,000  prisonerfi 
out  of   GermaTiy,    and  settled 
them    upon    the    bank    of  the 
Rhine  in  GauL     He  recovered 
Armenia  J rom   the  Parthians  ; 
the  Persians  gave  him   hosta- 
ges,   which    they    had    never 
done  to  any  before  ;    they  like- 
wise     returned     the     Roman 
standards  which  they  had  taken 
from   Crassus,  when    he   was 
conquered, 

10.  'I'hc  Scythians  and  In- 
dians, to  whom  the  name  of  the 
Romans  had  been  unknovjn 
before,  sent  presents  and  a^n- 
bassadors  to  him.  Guluti  tco 
under  him  uhis  made  a  prcm 
viuce^  whereas  it  had  been  a 
kingdom  before  ;  and  first  of 
all  AL  Lollius  governed  it  in 
quality  of  Proprator,  He 
was  in  so  much  respect  among 
the  Barbarians,  that  Kings,  al- 
lies   of    the     Roman   people^ 


I  Cities  of  the  Tauric  Chersone«;o,  nigh  the  Cimmerian  Bosporus. 
^  Drusus  and  Tiberi\«  were  sons  of  his  wife  Li\  ia  by  a  former  hus- 
fcand- 


l\2 


EUTROPII 


ci,  in  honorem  ejus  con-  built  cities   in  honour  of  him, 

dideriint    civitates,    quas  liyhich    they   called    C<esareas ; 

Cxsareiis       nominarent :  asin  Muuritiniia,  by  Kini;  Ju- 

sicut  in   Mauiitania  a  re-  ba,  arid  in  Palci^tme,  ivhich  is 

ge  Juba,  et  in   Palxstina,  now  a  very  famous  city.     Jnd 

qux  nunc  est  urbs  claris-  many    Kings  came  from   their 

sima.    MuUiautemreges  kingdoms,    and  in  the  Roman 

regnis  siiis   venerunt,  et  habit,  that   is,  dres.yd  in    the 

habilu    Romano,      togati  Toga,  ran  by  his  chariot  or  his 

scilicet,     acl     vehicuium  horse's  side.      ^t  his  death  he 

vel  equum  ipsius  ciicur-  was    called  a   god.*     He  lift 

reriini.     Moriens    Divus  the   empire  in   a   very  hapfnj 

appeliatus     est.        Rem-  state  to  his  successor   Tiberius, 

publicam       beatissimam  who  had  been  his  ste/ison,  and 

-riberio    successori    reli-  /presently  his    "^son-in-law,  fi- 

(luit,  qui  privignus   ejus,  nally  his  son  by  adoption, 
mox  i^::ner,  posiremo  a- 
doplione  filius  fiierat. 

II.    Tiberius     ingenli         \\,   Tiberius  governed    the 

flocordia   impeiium    j^es-  cinjiire    with    gr^at    laziJicss, 

Lit,      fjravi      crudelitale,  grievous  cruelty. wickcdavance 

scLiiiSta  avariiia,  turpi  li-  and    shameful    lust ;    for    he 

bidiue:  nam  nusquamjp-  fiught  no   where  himself  but 

.se    pugnavit;     bella    per  managed  his  wars  by  his  lieu- 

If  i^atos  suos  gessit ;  quos-  tenants  ;  soine  Kings  invited  to 

dam    reges    ad    se    per  him   by  fair   words    he  never 

blanditius   evocatos  nun-  sent  back  again,  amongst  which 

qiiam    remisit,    in    que-  was    Archelaus    the    Cafipado- 

is   Archtlaum   Cappado-  cian,  whose    kingdom   likewise 

cem,    cujus    etiam    reg-  he  reduced  into   the  form  of  a 

num  in  provincial  formam  province,     and     ordered      the 

redegit,  ct  maximam  ci-  greatest  city  thereof  to  be  cal- 

*  This  fulsome  and  abominable  compliment  had  been  paid  before 
to  the  nieniovy  of  Julius  Cxsar ;  and  ht  us  see  what  folly  and  mad- 
ness human  nature  is  capable  of  when  left  to  itself.  I  cannot  torbt-ar, 
upon  this  occasion,  taktn- notice  of  a  pleasant  answer  made  by  Agesi- 
Jaus,  Kin?  of  Sparta,  to  the  Thasians,  who  for  considerable  servict> 
he  had  done  them,  deputed  some  gentlemen  to  him  witk  a  tender  ot 
the  temple  and  divine  honors  they  had  decreed  for  him.  Lpon  uhicn 
he  asked  them  if  they  could  make  gods  in  their  country.  1  he  de|.u- 
ties  answering  yes,  he  desired  them  to  make  themselves  so  in  the  Ur^t 
place,  and  then  he  should  believe  they  might  do  as  mnch  for  him. 

t  He  married  his  daughter  Julia,  a  notorious  strumpet, 


LIBER  VII. 


ii:; 


vitatem  appellari  suo  no- 
mine jussiti  quae  nunc 
Cxsarea  dicitur,  cum 
Mazaca  antea  vocaretur. 
Hie  tertio  8c  vigesimo 
imperii,  anno  aciatis 
Ixxxiii.  ingenti  omnium 
gaudio  mortuus  est  in 
Campania. 

\'2.  Successit  ei  Caius 
Casar,  cognomento  Cali- 
gula, Drusi  privigni  Au- 
gusti,    Sc    ipsius    Tiberii 
nepos  :     sceleratissimus, 
ac    funestissimus,  &  qui 
etiam     Fiberii    dcdecora 
purgaverit.    Bellum  con- 
tra  Germanos  suscepit : 
8c     ingressus     Sueviam, 
nihil  strenue  fecit.     Stu- 
pra  sororibus  intuht,  ex 
Vina  etiam  natam   filiam 
cognovit.      Cum    adver- 
sum    cunctos  ingenti   a- 
varitia,   libidine,  crudeli- 
tate    sxviret,    interfectus 
in  palatio  est,  anno  aelatis 
suae    xxxix.    imperii    iii. 
mense  x.  dicque  viii. 


1 3.  Post  hunc  Claudius 
f'lit  patruus  Caligulx, 
Drusi,  qui  apud  Mogun- 
tiacum  monumentum  ha- 
bct  iilius :    cujus  et  Cali- 


led  by  his  own  name,  which  is 
even  know  called  Copsaria, 
whereas  it  was  called  Mazaca 
before,  Ife  died  to  the  great 
joy  of  all  people  in  Campania^ 
in  the  2od  year  of  his  reign^ 
and  *S2d  of  his  age. 


12.    Caius    Casar,    by  siir-^ 
name  Caligula,  phc  grandson 
of  Drusus,  the  stepson  of  Au^ 
gustus,    and  grandnephew    of 
Tiberius     himself,     succeeded 
him  ;  e  most  wicked  and  ?nost 
pernicious  firince,  and  who  did 
by  his  greater  abominations 
quite  obliterate   the  scandalous 
crimes    of  Tiberius,     He    wi^ 
dcrtook  a  war  against  the  Ger- 
mans,    and    entering    Suevia, 
perfor?ncd  nothing  brave.     He 
committed    incest  with  his  sis- 
ters,   and   owned  a    daughter* 
born   of  one  of  them*      IVhilst 
he  was  exercising  his  fury  upon 
all  sorts  of  people,  with  huge 
avarice,  lust    and   cruelty,  hr. 
was  slain  in  the  palace,  in  the 
\'j9th  year  of  his   age,  and  in 
the  $d  year   \Oth  month,  and 
8th  day  of  his  reign, 

13.  After  him  was  Claudius, 
uncle  to    Caligula,    the  so?i  of 
that  Drusus  who  has  a  monu* 
mcnt   at  JMoguntiacum,  whose 
grandson  too  Caligula  was^  Hs 


*  Jle  should  have  said  78. 

f  Here  must  be  something  wanting,  as  Madam  Dacier  justly  takes 
notice,  or  the  word  Ncpos  used  in  a  double  sense,  for  a  jiauds;yri  au4 
grr.ndncphen'. 

1  It  should  be  the  29th,  as  appears  from  Suctguius, 

K  3 


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gula  nepos  erat.    Hicme- 
die  imperavit,  multa  ge- 
rens  tranquille  atque  mo- 
derate,   qusdam  crudeli- 
ter  atque  insulse.  Britan- 
nia intulit  bellum,  quam 
nullus  Romanorum  post 
Julium  Cacsarem    attige- 
rat;    eaque     devicta   per 
Cnxum  SenHum  8c    Au- 
lum  Plauiium,  illustrcs  8c 
iiobiles  viros,  triumphum 
celebrem  egit.  Quasdam. 
insulas  etiam  ultra  Bri- 
tanniam  in  oceano  posi- 
las,  Romano  imperio  ad- 
didit  ;    qu«     appellantur 
Orcades:  iilioquesuoBri- 
lannici  nomen  imposuit. 
Tarn  civilis  autem  circa 
quosdam  amicos  exstitit, 
ut  etiam  Plautium,  nobi- 
lem  virum,   qui  in  expe- 
ditione  Britannica  multa 
ac    egregia  ftcerat,    tri- 
umphantem    ipse   pcose- 
(juerelur,      8c     conscen- 
denti  capitolium  laevus  in- 
cederet.     Is  vixit    annos 
ixiv.  imperavit  xiv.  post 
mortem  consecratus  est, 
Divusqueappel  lalus. 

14.  Successit  huic  Ne- 
ro, Caligulx  avunculo  suo 
simillimus:  qui  imperi- 
umRomanum  8c  deforma- 
vit  Sc  diminuit :  inusitatx 
luxuriae      sumptuumque, 


reigned    itidifftrently^    *  doing 
many  things  mildly  and  mode- 
rately^ but  some  things  cruelly 
and  foolishly.     He  made  war 
ufion  Britain^  which  no  one  of 
the   Romans  after  Julius   Ca- 
sar,    had  meddled  with ;    and 
conquering  it  by  Cneeus  Se72tius 
and  Aulus  Plautius^  illustrious 
and  noble  gentlemen^he  had  a  fa- 
mous      triumph.       He     added 
likewise  some  islands  lying  in 
the  ocean  beyond  Britain  to  the 
Roman  em/iire^  which  are  cal- 
led Orcades  ;  and  gave  the  name 
oj  Britanniciis  to  his  son.     He 
was  so  very  condescending  too 
to  some  of  his  friends^  that  he 
himself  attended  upon  PlautiuSy 
a  nobleman^  who  had  perform- 
ed many  and  excellent  things 
in     the    British      exfiedition^ 
in    his    triumph^     and     walk- 
ed iifion  his  left  handy  as  he 
mounted  the  cajitoL      He  lived 
64    yearsy     and    reigned    14, 
^was    consecrated    after     his 
deathy  and  called  a  God, 


1 4.  A'ero  succeeded  him, 
very  like  his  uncle  Caligula, 
who  both  dishonoured  and  les- 
sened the  Roman  empire;  a 
man  of  unusual  luxury  and  ex- 
pense, as  who,  according  to  the 

*  He  properly  did  nothing  himself,  honest  man^  being  led  by  the 
nose  entirely  by  his  wives  and  freed  men. 

f  Which  consecration  or  canonization  was  r ery  comically  turned 
into  ridicule  by  Seaeca  the  philosopher, 


LIBER  VII. 


115 


utqui  exemplo  Caii  Cali- 
gulcc,  calidis  8c  fi  igidis  i<e 
luvaret  ungtientis,  reti- 
bus  aureis  piscareti.r, 
quai  blatteis  funibus  ex- 
trahebat.  Infinitam  par- 
tem Scnatus  interfecit, 
bonis  omnibus  hostis 
fuit;  ad  po«tremum  se 
tanto  dedecore  prostituit, 
ut  saltaret  8c  cantaret  in 
scena  citharoedico  habilu 
8c  tragico ;  parricidia 
multa  commisit*  fratre, 
uxore,  matre  interfeclis: 
urbem  Romkm  incendit, 
ut  spectaculi  ejus  imagi- 
nem  cerneret,  quasi  olim 
Troja  capta  arserat.  In 
re  militari  nihil  omni- 
no  ausus,  Britanniam 
pene  arnisit.  Nam  duo 
sub  hoc  nobilissima  op- 
pida  capta  illic  atque  e- 
versa  sunt;  Armeniam 
Parihi  susiuleiunt,  le- 
gionesque  Romanas  sub- 
jugum  miserunt.  Dux 
tamen  provincise  sub  eo 
faciac  sunt;  Ponius  Po- 
Itnioniacus,  concedenle 
rege  Polemnne;  8c 
Alpes,  Coluo  regc  de- 
lunclo. 


examfde   of    Caius     Caligula, 
bathed  himself  in  hot  and  cold 
oih^fished  with   golden    nets, 
which    he    drew    with      cords 
of   scarlet  silk.      He  killed  a 
vast  number   of   ^he   Senate,* 
was  a?i  enemy   to  all  g'  od  vten, 
and  at  last  debased  himself  ivith 
so  much  scandal^  that  he  duTic» 
ed  and  sung  ufion  the  stage  in 
the  habit  of  a  harfiei  and  a  tra- 
gedian :    he  committed     ma?iy 
parricides^   putting    to    death 
his  brother,  wife  and  moiher : 
he  fired  the  city   Ro7ne.   ^ihat 
he  might  see  a  resemblance  of 
that     sight,       when    Troy    of 
old   was     taken     and    bumc. 
He  attempted  noth  ing  at  all  in 
the  military  way,  and  well  nigh 
lost  Britain :  for    under    him 
two  very  famous  toxuns  were 
there    take?i     and     destroyed. 
The  Farthians   took   .Armenia 
from   him,    and  put  the  Ro- 
man   legions    under   the   yoke. 
Yet  two  provinces  were  made 
under  him,  Fontus  Pohmonia- 
ens,  King  Polemon  yielding  it 
up  ;  and  the  Alps,  Cottius,  the 
King  thereof,  dying. 


*  This  tvas  always  the  case  in  the  reign  of  wicked  Emperors.  Men 
eminent  for  virtue  and  great  abilitit .s  were  seldom  sulTtned  to  die  in 
peare  under  them  ,  of  which  uo  ha\e  many  tragic»!  instaiices  in  Ta- 
citus, an  autlior  that  ought  to  be  read  over  and  o\  er  by  the  aduiivers  of 
«bsohite  monarchy. 

f  Wiiat  our  author  intended  to  say  here  seem"^  not  difficult  to  guess, 
though  the  words,  it  is  visible,  have  no  sense  in  ihciu;  which  1  wonder 
Madam  Dacicr  has  passed  ovfcr  anubterv^d. 


llo 


EUTROPil 


LTBER  VII. 


iir 


15, 


Propter  hoc  Ro- 
mans urbi  execrabilis,  ab 
omnibus  simul  destitutus, 
&  a  Senatu  hostis  jvidica- 
tus,  quum  quxreretur  ad 
pcenam  (qux  pcena  erat 
talis,  ut  nudus  per  publi- 
cum ductus,  furca  capiti 
ejusinserta,  virgis  usque 
ad  mortem  caedereiur, 
atque  ita  praccipitaretur 
de  saxo)  e  palatio,  fugit, 
&  in  suburban©  se  liberii 
sui,  quod  est  inter  Sala- 
riam  &  Numentanam 
viam  ad  quartum  urbis 
milliarium,  interfecit.  Is 
sedificavit  Romx  ther- 
mas,  qux  ante  Neronianac 
diclDc  nuHC  Alexandrinae 
appellantur.  Obiit  trige- 
simo  &  altc'o  sctatisanno, 
impeiii  xiv.  atque  in  eo 
omnis  familia  Augusii 
consumpta  est. 

16  Huic  Sergius  Gal- 
ba  successit,  aiUiquissi- 
mx  nobilitatis  Serfator, 
cum  Ixxiii.  annum  ageret 
rstat.is,  ab  Hispanis&Gliis 
Imperator  tltclus,  mox 
ab  iiniverso  exercitu  li- 
benter  acceptuscst.  Nam 
privaia  ejus  vita  insignis 
iiicrat  mililaribus  5c  ciw- 
libus  rebus  :    s^xpe  Con- 


1 5.  Being  odious  to  the  city 
of  Rome  upon  this  account^  at 
the  same  time  forsaken  by  all 
meiu  and  declared  an  enemy  by 
the  Senate^  ivhcn  he  ivas  sought 

for  to  be  punifihed^  (ivhich  pun* 
ishment  %vas  such,  that  bcina- 
dragged  naked  through  the 
fitreefs,  ivith  a  fork  put  under 
his  head^  lie  should  be  lashed 
with  rods  to  deaths  and  so 
throxvn  down  the  Tarpeian 
rock)  he  fled  out  of  the  palace., 
and  killed  himself  in  a  country 
seat  nigh  the  ciiy^  belonging  to 
a  freed  man  ofhis^  which  is  be- 
twixt  the  ^alarian  and  J^'umeU' 
iau  way. at  the  Ath  mile  from  the 
city.  He  built  the  warm  baths 
at  RoJne,  which  before  were 
called  Aero's  but  are  now  na- 
med  the  Mexa?idrian,  He  died 
171  the  *Z\  St  year  of  his  age, 
the  \Ath  of  his  reign  ;  and  in 
him  all  the  family  af  jlugustus 
was  extinct, 

16.  Sergius  Galba  succeeded 
hi  my  a  Senator  of  very  ancient 
7:ohiHty^  when  he  was  going 
u/ion  the  73d  year  of  his  age, 
and  was  chosen  Emperor  by 
the  Spaniards  and  Gauls,  vmc\ 
presently  was  willingly  receiv- 
ed by  the  whole  army  ;  for  his 
■\private  life  had  been  remark- 
able  for  military  ami  civil  ac- 
tions,  he  had  been  ofttn  \Con- 


*  Suetonius  says  tlie  !32c]. 

t  i'i.u»  is,  his  life  befu'.e  lie  was  F.mperor.  rutropius  u.?es  the 
^vovtl  jM-inUa  ij  little  sirvjrulaily  iierc  •  fur  privaln  vita  properly  .signilits 
the  life  of  a  private  person,  m  one  in  no  public  ollice  or  station. 

X   Tuic.  only. 


sul,  sxpe  Proconcul,  fre- 
quenter dux  in  gravissi- 
mis  bellib.  Hujus  breve 
imperium  fuit,  &  quod 
bona  haberet  exordia,  nisi 
ad  seveiitatem  propen- 
sior  videretur.  Insidiis 
tamen  Oihonis  occisus 
est,  imperii  mense  sep- 
limo,  in  Foro  Romac,  se- 
pultusque  in  hortis  suis, 
qui  sunt  Aurelia  via  non 
longe  ab  urbe  Romx. 

17.   Otbo,  occiso  Gal- 
ba,    invasit    imperium  : 
materno   genere  uobilior 
quam  paterno,  neutro  ta- 
men obscuro  :   in  privata 
\it'a    molhs,    in    impcrio 
documentum      sui     non 
potuit   ostendere.     Nam 
cum    iisdem  temporibus 
quibus  Otho  Galbavii  oc- 
cidcrat,    eiiam    Vitellius 
factus  esset  a  Germani- 
acis-  exercitibus  Impera- 
tor,     bello    contra    eum 
siiscepto,   cum  apud  Be- 
briacum     in     Italia    levi 
prxlio    victus   esset,    iu- 
gentes  tamen  copias  ha- 
beret, spontesemeiipsum 
occidit,  petentibus  militi- 
bus,  ne  tarn  cito  de  belli 


sul,  often  Proconsul,  and  fre- 
quently General  in  (he  mosf 
dangerous  wars.  His  reign 
was  short,  and  which  had  a 
good  beginning,  but  that  he 
seemed  too  inclinable  to  cruelty, 
Hoxvever,  he  was  taken  off  by  a 
plot  oj  Otho's  in  the  7th  month 
of  his  reign,  in  the  *Forum  of 
Rome,  and  was  buried  in  his 
gardens,  which  are  in  the  Ju- 
relian  way,  not  far  from  t'ls 
city  Rome. 

17.   Otho,  after   Galba   was 
slaifi,  seized  the   empire,  more 
nob/e  by  the  mothers  side  than 
the  fathers  yet  by   neither  ob- 
scure:   he   was   effeminate    in 
his  private  life,  but  in  his  reign 
could  give  no  specimen  of  him- 
self    For  nteUius  being  made 
Jiwperor  by    the    German    ar- 
mies,   at   the    same  time  when 
Otho   slew  Galba,  undertaking 
a  war  against   him,  and  being 
defeated   in  a   slight  battle   at 
"^Btbriacum   in    Italy,    though 
he   had    still  great  jorces,  he 
voluntarily   killed  himself,  the 
soldiers     requesting     that    he 
would  not  despair  so  soon  of  the 
issue    of  the    war,  \-^aying  he 
was  not   so  fnuch  worth,  that  a 
civil  war  should  be  raised  upon 


*  There  were  in  Entrcpius'  time  several  Forums  in  Rom.-,  the  most 
anci.ut  of  which  was  distmguished  from  the  rest  by  the  name  of  Lo- 

rum  Remanitm  or  RomT.  .   ,  ^  a  A'ornna 

f  A  town  i,ot  very  far  from  the  Po,  betw.x't  Cremona  and  )  ^  «na 
:  He  never  said,  perhaps,  a  truer  word  m  his  life,  tor  he  had  b.  en 
the%lpanron   of  Nero  m    h.s  debaucheries,   and  .fs  b^e  enough 
might  have  proved  such  aoother  worthless  mischievous  wretch  a«  he 


M'uai. 


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EUTROPII 


desperaret  eventu,  cum 
tanti  non  esse  dixissct, 
ut  propter  eum  civile 
bellum  commoveieUir. 
Vohmraria  morte  obijt 
tngesimo  &  octavo .xtatis 
anno,  nonai^esimo  & 
qiiinto  imperii  die. 

18.  Dein  ViicUiijs  im- 
Perio  i.otiius  est,  familia 
honoraia  inagis  cjuam  no- 
bill:   nam  paier  ej.is  non 

«'^dmodumcIarenatus,tres 
tanien   ordinarios   gesse- 
serat    Consnlatiis.  '    Hie 
cum  muliodedecore  im- 
peravit,  8c   q^ravi    srcvitia 

notabiIis,pr3ccipuein£^Iu. 
vie  &  voracitate:  qiiippe 
cum  de  die  soepe  (|uarto 
vel  quinto  fertur  epula- 
tus.  Noti-sima  certe 
coena   memoriae  mandata 

est,quamei  Vitelliiisfra- 
terexhibuit:     in  qua  su- 
per    coeteros      sumptus, 
Ciuo  millia  piscium,  sep- 
tem. avium  millia  apposi- 
traduntur.    Hie  cum  Ne- 
roni    similis   esse    vellet, 
atque     id    adeo    prre    st 
ferret,  ut  etiam  exequias 
>ieronis,    quae    humiliier 
sepultac  fuerant,    honora- 
ret,  a  Vespasian!  ducibus 
occisus     est,      interleclo 
pnus  Sabino  Vespasiani 
Imperatoris  fratre,  quern 
cum   Capitolio   incendit. 


A/.9  accoufir.  He  died  a  volun- 
tary dtat/i,  in  the  .,8i/i  yruv  of 
/lis  age,  and  the  9oih  ^duy  cf 
his  reign» 


18.    The7i    VireUiua  got  the 
J^mpire,  of  an  hrjiiour'ble,    ra^ 
Ihtr  than  a  noble  familn  ;  for 
his  fu'hrr,  though    not  nobly 
dfsce?idcd,  yet    hud   bore  three 
ordi?iQru Consulshi/is.  He  rcign^ 
ed  with  great  scandal,  andw^s 
remarkable  for  grievous  cruel' 
ty^  but  es/icciaily  gluttony  and 
gormandizing  ;  fr  he   is  mid 
to    have  frequently  eaten  four 
or  five  times  a  day.    However, 
a  very    remarkable   sufi/ier    of 
his   has  been  It-ft  ufion    record, 
ivhich  his  brother  Vitellius gave 
him:  in  which,  besides    ether 

expenses,    there    are    said   to 
1  .  ^^^^ 


bave    been    served   u/i    ^„yj^ 
Mh  and  7000  fowls,     Beina- 
desirous    to  be  like  M-ro,  and 
Jnaking  open  shenu  of  it  to  that 
degree,  that  he  honoured    *the 
relics  of  .Kero,  which  had  been 
meanly    buried;  he   was   slain 
^y  Vespasian's  generals,  Sabi. 
nus  the  brother   of  Ves/iasian 
the  Emperor  haiing  been  first 
killed  by  him,  whom  he  burnt 
with  the  Capitol.   He  was  slain, 
and  dragged  with  great  igno. 
ininy  publicly  through  the  city 


^:^j;z-;:.^  ::'^--r!e  r^'- -;-^ «-  --  - 


LIBER  VII. 


119 


Interfectus  aulem,  et 
cum  magno  dedecore  Ira- 
ctus  per  urbem  Romam 
publice,  nudus.  erecta 
coma  et  capite,  subjecto 
ad  mentum  gladio,  sier- 
core  in  vulium  et  pectus 
ab  omnibus  obf  iis  appeti- 
^us:  postremo  jngulatus, 
ct  in  Tiberim  dejeclus, 
etiam  communi  caruit 
sepultura.  Periit  autem 
ffitaiis  anno  septimo  et 
quinqu'gesimo,  imperii 
mense  viii.  et  die  uno. 

19.  Vespasianus  huic 
successit,  factus  apud  Pa- 
iKbtinam  Imperator; 

princeps  obscure  quidem 
natus,    sed  optimis  com- 
parandus,     privata     vita 
illustris  ;  ul  qui  a  Claudio 
in  Germaniam,  deinde  in 
Britanniam    misbus,  tri- 
cies    et    bis    cum    hoste 
conflixerit  ;   du  is  vuh'dis- 
simasgentes,  xx.  oppida, 
insulam  V^ectam    IJritan- 
ii'sc    proximam    Imperio 
Romano    adjecerit.     Ro- 
rriai  se  in  Imperio  mode- 
latisbime    gessit  :     pecu- 
niae   tanien   avidior    f.iit, 
Jta   ut   eatii  nulh   injuste 
au ferret,  quarn  cum  om- 
^i  ddigenti»    provisione 
colligertt,  tamen  studio- 
sissime  largiebalur,  pras- 


liome,    naked,   with   his   hair 
and  head  upright,  with  a  sword 
fiut  under  his  chin,  bespattered 
with  dung,  thrown  in  his  face 
and  breast,  by  all  that  met  him  : 
finally    having   his   throat  cut, 
and  being  thrown  into  the  Tiber 
he  "wanted  even  conunon  bu. 
rial.     He  was  taken  off  in  the 
S7th  year  of  his  age,  in  fS/A 
month  and  first  daj  over  of  his 
reign. 


1 9.  Vespasian  succeeded  him, 
bei?ig  made  Emperor  in  Pales^ 
tine;    a   Prince    obsurely    de- 
scended indeed,  but  to  be  com~ 
pared  to  the  best,  illustrious  in 
his  private  life  ;  as  who  having 
been  sent  by  Claudius  into  Ger^ 
many,     and  fro?n    thence    into 
Britain,  engaged  two  and  thir- 
ty times    with  the  enemy,  and 
added  two  very  potent  nations 
20  towns  and  the  Isle  of  IVight] 
near   Britain,     to   the    Roman 
Empire.       He  behaved  himself 
very  moderately  in  his  govern, 
mcnt  at  Rome  ;  yet  he  was  too 
greedy  of  money,  but   so    that 
he  took  it  from  nobody  iinjustlu  ; 
which  though  he  scraped  toge- 
ther  with  all  diligent  forecast, 
yet  he  bestowed  it  about  him 
very    liberally,     esptcidly    to 
those  that  were  in  want ;  nor 


f  (^H.r'm,;r  T^'""'''^  ^  '^"■'^''"'  *^''»?  ^'^'^^  ^i^e  heathen. 


ftaLtiiSifeiteM  ifHitiririirift-  nHnrriWi^  .r.fca.3^af^ 


120 


EUTROPII 


cipue  IncHgentibus  ;  nee 
facile  ante  eum  cujus- 
qiiam  principis  vel  major 
est  liberalitcis  comperta, 
vel  justior:  placidis-imae 
bonitatis,  ut  qui  majes-a- 
tis  quoque  contia  se  re- 
os  non  facile  punirct  ul- 
tra exilii  pcenam.  Sub 
hoc  Judara  Romano  ac- 
cessit  Imperio,  et  Hiero- 
solyma,  quae  fuit  urbs  cla- 
rissima  Paiae-»ii:ix.  A- 
chaiam,  Lyciam,  Rho- 
dum,  ByzatUium,  Sa- 
mum,  qiic  libctx  a;tie 
hoc  lenriusfueiant,  item, 
Tir'aciani,  Ciliciam, 

Tiachcam,  Comageiem, 
qux  sub  rci^ibus  aaiicis 
in  proviuciarum  foi*- 
mam    redejjit. 

20.  Ort'enNarum  et  Iiii- 
micitiarum  iumiemor  f  j- 
it,  convicia  a  causidicis 
et  phiiosopliis  in  se  dicta, 
lenitcr  tulit ;  delit^ens 
tamen  c.oercitor  disrip. 
linac  militaiis.  Hie  cum 
Ti'.ofiliode  Hierosolymis 
triumphavit.  Per  hxc 
cuii)  Seuatui  et  pop-  lo, 
posircmo  cuiiciis  amabi- 
lis  ac  jucundus  essei,  pro- 
fluvio  ventns  extinctus 
est  in  villa  propria,  circa 
Sabinos,  annum  setatis  a- 
gensl.\ix.  imperii  nonum, 
et  diem  sep'.im\im  atque 

*  Juf^ltia  Ijati  been  added  low^ 
pears  tVotu  tiio  Xe.v  I'cstaiut;ot 
f  He  lived,  as  otUors  say,  by 


was  the  generosity  of  any 
Prince  before  him  ever  found 
to  be  either  greater^  or  more 
reasonable  ;  a  man  of  the  mos!: 
charming  goodness^  as  ivho  did 
not  easily  /iu7nsh  any^  though 
guilty  uj  treason  too  againsi 
him,  beyond  the  fiain  cf  banish- 
ment. Under  him*  Judea  ivas 
added  to  the  Roman  Umpire  j; 
and  Jerusalem,  which  was  a 
very  fumuns  city  of  Palestine. 
He  reduced  into  the  form  of 
provijict-i  Ichaia,  Lycia,  Rho. 
dert^  /^i/zan'ium^  Samos.  ivhich 
had  be^n  free  btforc  this  time  ; 
like  wist  Thrace,  Cilicia.  Tha- 
chfi.  Cumagtne,  ivhich  luere 
under  Kings,  allies  of  the  Ro- 
mans. 


20  He  was  not  apt  to  re- 
member offenccfi  or  quarrels, 
and  tojk  fiatietvly  the  ill  lan- 
guage uttered  against  him  '»/ 
the  lawi/ers  and  pinlosofhers  ; 
yet  a  •iiligent  exactor-  cf  mili- 
tanf  dict/ilme.  He  -ultli  hifi 
son  Thus  triumijhed  : uer  J(  ru- 
salcm,  After  he  \aos  become  by 
th-'fie  thingft  dear  and  agreeable 
both  to  the  Senntr  and  ficople^ 
and  at  last  to  ail  ;nei^. ;  hf"  di- 
ed of  a  looseness^  in  iii'S  own 
cminfry  seat.,  in  //.-.^  country  cf 
the  Sabines,  going  ufim  the 
\69th  year  of  his  «'•/',  the  9th. 
year  and  7  th  day  of  his  rt'tgn^ 

before  to  the  Uoman  Em})iie,  us  aj> 

tselt. 

years,  7  months  and  7  days. 


LIBER  Vir. 


inter  divos  relatus  est.Ge- 
nituram  filiorum  ita  cog- 
nitam  habuit,ut  cum  mul- 
tsc  contra  eum  conjura- 
tiones  fierent,  quas  pate- 
factas  mgenti  dissimula- 
tione  contempsit,  in  Se- 
natu  dixerit,  aut  lilios  si- 
bi  successuros,  aut  ne- 
minem. 

21.  Huic  Titus  filius 
successit,  qui  et  ipse 
Vespasianus  est  dictus  : 
vir  omnium  virtutum  ge- 
nera mirabilis:  adeo  ut 
amor  et  delicix  humani 
generis  diceretur:  facun- 
dissimus,  bellicosissi- 
mus,  mdderatissimus : 
causas  Latine  egit,  poe- 
mata  et  tragoedios  Graece 
composuit.  In  oppug- 
naiione  Hierosolymorum 
sub  patre  militans,  xii. 
propugnatores  xii.  sagit- 
tarum  iclibus  confixit. 
Rumx  tani»  civilira.iis  in 
imperio  fuit,  ut  nullum 
onmino  puniret;  convic- 
tos  adversum  sese  conju- 
rationis  ita  dimi^erit,  ut 
in  eadem  familiaritate, 
qua  antea,  habuerit.  Fa- 
cilitatis  tanire  fuit  et  libe- 
ralitatis,  ut  nuUi  quid- 
quam  negaret :  et  cum 
ab  amicis  reprehendere- 


and  was  placed  amoug  ihe  God.^, 
He  had  the  nativity  of  his  sens 
so  well  understood,  that  cifcr 
many  con^^fiiracies  were  formed 
against  him,  which  when  die,- 
covered  he  slighted  with  the  ut- 
most disregard,  *he  said  in  the 
Senate,  that  either  his  sona 
would  succeed  him,    or  nobody, 

2 1 .  ///5  son  Titua  succeeded 
him,  who  himself  too  was  cal- 
led Vespasian  ;  a  man  admirC' 
blefor  \all  sorts  of  good  qua- 
lities, 80  that  he  was  called  the 
darlingand  delight  cf  mankind  ; 
very  eloquent,  very  warlike 
and  very  moderate  :  He  plead- 
ed causes  in  Latin,  composed 
poems  and  tragedies  in  Greek. 
When  he  served  under  his  fa- 
ther in  the  siege  of  Jerusalem, 
he  killed  12  defenders  nf  the 
place  with  the  stroke  of  12  ar- 
loivs.  He  was  a  man  of  so 
much  moderation  in  his  govern' 
ment  at  Rome,  that  he  punished 
nobody  at  all,  and  released  such 
as  were  convicted  of  conspi- 
ring  against  him,  so  that  he 
kept  them  in  the  same  Jumili- 
arity  as  before.  He  was  a 
Prince  of  so  much  easiness 
and  generosity,  that  he  denied 
no  man  any  thing  ;  and  wheji 
he  was  blamed  for  it  by  his 
friends,    he    rejilied,    that    no 


*  This  saying  of  his,  it  is  likely,  uas  not  so  much  grounded  upon 
his  pretended  «kill  in  astrology,  as  a  sense  lie  had  that  his  i)rudent  and 
moderate  administration  hud  sennvd  to  his  sons  au  interest  in  the 
Laij)ire  above  all  danger  from  any  competition. 

f  J  should  rather  rhoose  to  read  in  the  original  o?7jni  than  cmnium. 


}22 


EUTROPII 


tur,    respondlt :    nullum 
tristem  citbere  ab  Impe- 
ratore  discedere.     Prop- 
terea  cum  quadam  die  in 
ccena  recordatus  fuibset, 
nihil  se  illo  die  cuiquam 
prsstitisse,    dixit:    O   a- 
mici,  hodie  diem  perdi- 
di.     Hie   Romac    amphi- 
Iheatrum    acdificavit,     ct 
quinquc    millia   ferarum 
in  dedicatione  ejus  occi- 
dit. 

22.   Per  hzDc  inusilalo 
fdvore  dilectus  moibo  pe- 
riit,  in  ea  qua  paler  villa, 
post  biennium,nienses  oc- 
to,  dies  XX.  quam  Impe- 
rator  erat   factus,  sctaiis 
anno  altero  et  xl.     Tan- 
tub  luctus  CO  mortuo  pub- 
licus  fuit,  ut  omnes  tan- 
quam  in   propria   doluc- 
rint   orbitate.      Senatus, 
obitu  ipsius  circa  vespe- 
ram  nuniiatioynocle  irru- 
pit  in  Curiam  ;  ct  tanlas 
ei  mortuo  gratias  laudes- 
que    concessit,    quanta» 
nee  viro  unquam  ei^erat, 
nee  prescnti.     Inter  Di- 
vos  relatus  est. 


man  ought  to  go  sorrowful  from 
an  Emperor.  Wherefore^  ichen 
he  had  rtcolltcttd  one  day  at 
sup/ier^  that  he  had  done  no. 
thing  for  any  one  that  day,  he 
said,  O  friends^  to-day  I  have 
lost  a  day.  He  built  an  amphi- 
theatre  at  Romt^  and  Ucw 
5000  wild  beasts  in  *the  dedi- 
caiioji  of  it. 


23.  Domitianus  mox 
accepit  imperium,  fra»er 
ipsius  junior,  Neroni  aut 
Caligul»      aut      Tiberio 


22.    For  these  things  being 
beloved  with  an  unusual  fond- 
ness^   he  died  qf  a   distemper^ 
in  that  country  house  in  which 
hik  father  died,    two     yearsy 
eight  montlu  and  20  days  after 
he  had  been  made  Mrnperor,  in 
the  4  1  St  year  of  his  age.    There 
was  so  great    a  public  mourn- 
ing for  him,  after  he  was  dead, 
that  all  people  lamented  as   in 
their  own  proper  loss  of  rela- 
tions.    The  Senate,  when   the 
news  of  his  death  was  brought 
about   evening,    rushed  in   the 
night    into    the    Senate   house, 
and  bestowed  upon  him,    x\o\f 
dead,   such  thanks    and    enco- 
miums as  they  had  never  given 
him    alrae   nor  present.      He 
was  enrolled  amongst  the  gcds, 
23.     Immediately    Domitian 
took  the  government  upon  him, 
his  younger  brother,  more  like 
to  JS/ero   or  Caliguli,  or  Tibe- 


*  The  first  solemn   application  of  an  amphitheatre,  or  such  liVe 
iX^L!;,"     "^^'        tl>e"«e,t  was  designed  for,  was  called  »a  t»tm 


■     *W»W     »1     .JW-r^ 


LIBER  V!I. 


123 


hlmilior,  quam  patri  vtl 
frairi  suo,  primis  tamen 
annis  moderatus  in  im- 
perio  fuit :  mox  ad  in- 
gentia  vilia  progressus 
hbidiuis,  iracundix,  cru- 
dclitaiis,  avariiije,  tantum 
in  sj  odium  concnavit,  ut 
merita  pairis  et  fralris 
aboleiet.  Inierfecil  nobi- 
lissimos  ex  Senatu,  Dom- 
inum  se  et  Dcuai  primus 
appellari  jussit:  nullam 
Bibi  nisi  auream  et  ar- 
genieam  statuam  in  Cap- 
itolio  poni  pa  sus  est ; 
coiisobriiius  suos  inter- 
fecit  ;  supeibia  quoque 
in  eo  execrabjlis  fuit. 

24.  txptditiones  qua- 
luor  habuit,  unam  adi^cr- 
sus  Sarmaias,  alteram  ad- 
Yeisus  Cattos  duos  ad- 
versum  Ducus.  De  Dacis 
Catiisque  d  ipliccm  qui- 
dem  uiumpluini  egii;  de 
Sarmaiis  solvm  laurcani 
usurpavit.  Multas  qui- 
dem  calamiiaies  iiadcm 
beliis  pab-.us  est  :  nam 
in  Sarmatia  lirgione^  ejus 
cimi  ducc  in.cifeclac  ;  et 
a  Uacis  A[)pius  Sabinus 
Coiisularis,  et  Cornelius 
Euscus  Piaefectus  Prxto- 
rio,  cum  magnis  exerci- 

tibus  occiii  sunt.    Romae 

J 

*  Others  say  six. 
f  A  people  of  Germany. 
X  ihc   Daci    were  a    people 
•ppusite  to  Mce^ia,  on  the  soutk 


rius,  than  hisjather  or  brother  ; 
he  was,  however,  in  his  frst 
years  moderate  in  bis  govern- 
ment ;  but  soon  tfter  procecd- 
V'-g  '0  great  excesses  oj  lusty 
rage,  cruelty  and  avarice,  he 
raised  so  great  a  hatred  against 
himself,  that  he  quite  nvipcd 
0^  the  merits  of  his  father  and 
brother.  He  put  to  death  the 
noblest  of  the  Senate,  He  frst 
ordered  himself  to  be  called 
Lord  and  Gody  suffered  no  sta^ 
tue  to  be  set  for  himsef  in  the 
Capitol,  but  (f  gold  and  silver^ 
and  slew  his  cousins  ;  his  pride 
too  was  abominable  in  him. 


24.  He  undertook*  four  ex- 
peditions, one  against  the  Sar- 
mutians,  another  against  ithe 
Catti,  and  two  against  the 
\Dacians,  He  had  a  double 
triumph  for  the  Daci  arid  Catti; 
but  took  the  laurel  onLij  fr  his 
conquest  of  the  Sarmaticns, 
He  suffered  several  lossa  in 
the  same  wars ;  for  in  Sarma- 
tia,  his  Ir^iuus  with  their  Gen- 
eral, were  cut  off ;  and  Appi^ 
us  Sabinus,  a  Consular  gentle- 
man, and  Cornelius  J^uscus, 
Captain  of  the  guards,  were 
sluin  with  great  armies  by  the 
Dacians.  He  erected  many 
public  buildings  too  at  Rome  ; 


on    the   north  side  of  the   Danube, 

side. 


i'24 


EUTROPII 


cuoquemulta  opera  fecit, 
in  his  Capitolium  et   Fo- 
.  i'uni  Transitorium,  Ode- 
uni,    Pjiticiis,    Isium   ac 
Serapium,     et    Stadium. 
Verum  cum  ob  scclera  u- 
niversis  exosus  esse  cce- 
pisset,   interfectus  est  su- 
orum  conjuratione  in  pa- 
latio  annosciatis  x!v.  im- 
perii xv.  Funus  ejus  cum 
iHi^enti  dedecore  per  ves- 
pjUiones    exportatum,  et 
ignobiliter  est  sepulium. 


amongst  these  the  Capitol,  and 
the    Forum     Trarisitorium,  a 
Music   house.     Piazzas,     the 
temples   of  Isis  and  Sera/iis 
and  a  Vadium.     But  after  he 
begun  to  be  odious  to  all  [eople 
for  hi.^  villainies,  he  was  slain 
by    a    consfiiracy    of   his   own 
domestics  in  the  45th  year  of 
his  age,  and  \5t/i  of  his  reign. 
Bis    corpse    was    carried    out 
with   great    ignG?m?iy    by   the 
common  bearers,   and   meanly 
buried. 


^ifipsRSfr 


EUTROPII 

BREVIARIUM 

HISTORIC  ROMANCE. 


,^:®' 


LIBER  Vni. 


Anno  octingemesimo 
et  quinquagesimo  ab  ur- 
be  condiia,  Vetere  &  Va- 
lente  Consulibus,  respub- 
lica  ad  prosperrimum  sta- 
tum   rediit,  bonis  princi- 
pibus     ingenti     felicitate 
commissa.         Domitiano 
enim      exitiali      tyranno 
Nerva   successit ;    vir  in 
privata  vita  moderatus  et 
strenuus;  nobilitatis  me- 
dise,  qui  senex  admodum, 
operam  dantePelronioSe- 
cundo,  Prxfecto  Prxtorio, 
item  Parthenio    interfcc- 
tore   Domitiani,  Impera- 
tor    factus,    jcquissimum 
se  Sc  civilissimum  prxbu- 
it.Reipublicsc  divina  provi- 
sione  consuluit,Trajanum 
adoptando.     Mortuus  est 
Romx,     post   annum   et 


I 


^N   the  year    *Q  50  from   the 
building  of  the  city,   Vetusand 
Valens  being  Consuls,  the  Kin-- 
pire  returned  to  a  most  flourish- 
inp  condition,  being  committed 
to   good    Princes,  with  great 
good  fortune    to    the    public 
For  Kerva  succeeded  that  per- 
nicious   tyrant    Domitian;     a 
man    moderate   and  active    m 
his  private    life,  of  indifferent 
quality,  ivHq  was  made  Fmpe- 
ror  when  very  old,  Petronius 
Secundus,    commander   of    the 
guards,    and    Parthenius    too 
"the   assassinator  of  Domtttan, 
giving    him    their    assistance, 
and   behaved  very  justly  and 
moderately.     He  provided  for 
the    government    by    a  divtne 
foresight,  in  adopting  Trajan. 
He    died    at    Rome,     after   a 
reign  of  a  year^  4  mmihs  and 


*  This  was  the  year  of  Rome  804,  of  Christ  96. 

L3 


^.IMil^JS^ 


iUaf'^^diBiSsiisastta' . 


126 


quatuor  menses  imperii 
sui  ac  dies  octo,  xtatis 
fxx.  &atcroanno:  atque 
inter  Divos  rdaius  est. 

2.    Successit  ei  Ulpius 
Trajanus  Crinitus,  natus 
italic»   in  Hispania,   fa- 
"Jiiia      anliqua      ma?is 
qudm  Clara ;    nam  pafer 
cjusprimumConsuJfnit. 
Imperator    autem    apud 
^gnppinam  civitatem  in 
Callus  factus  est.     Rem- 
publicam  ita  administra- 
vit,   ut  omnibus  principi- 
bus     merito    pr^feratur. 
inusitata:  civilitatis  &  for- 

litiidinisfuit.Romanilm- 
pern,  quod  post   Augus- 
tum  defensum  magis  fu- 
«rat  quam  nobiliter  am- 
plialum,  fines  longe  Jaie- 
que  diffudit;  urbes  trans 
Khenum    in     Ger  mania 
reparavit:    Daciam  Deci- 
balo  victo  subegit,     pro- 
vincia    trans   Danubium 
lacta,    m  his  agris  quos 
nunc  Taiphali  habenT,  & 
Victophali  &  Theivingi 
£a  proviiicia  decies  cen- 
tena    millia    in    circuitu 
tenet. 

3.  Armeniam,  quam 
occupaverant  Parthi,  le- 
cepit,  Pharnace  Syro  oc- 
aso,  qui  eam  tcnebat. 
A]banis  regem  dedit. 
Jberorum  regem  &  Sauro- 
^natarum,    8c    Bosporan- 


EUTROPII 


Sdaya,  m   the  *7Ut  year  of 
fits  age;  and   was  enrolled  a- 
mo7ig,c   the   Divi,  or   Demi- 
gods. 

2.  Ulfiius  Trajanm  Crinitua 
succeeded  him,  born  at  Jtalica 
tH    S/iam,    oj    ancient    rather 
than  an  illustrious  family ;  f^r 
hiH  father  was  Consul  the  first 
of  all  the  race.     He  was  made 
^^mfieror  at  jigri/i/una,  a  city 
in    Gaul.     He  so  managed  the 
government,  that  he   is  deser 
vtdly  preferred  be/ore  all  the 
other  Emfierors,     He  was  a 
person  of  unusual  moderation 
and   bravery.       He    extended 
Jar  and  wide  the  boundaries  of 
the  Roman  limfiire,  which  had 
been  dejended  rather  after  Au^ 
gustus,    than    nobly   enlarged. 
He  received  some  cities  beyond 
the  Rhine  in    Germany.     He 
subdued  Ducia  by  comjuerin. 
Decibalus,  making  a  province 
beyond   ihe    Danube,    in   that 
territory   which  now  the  Tai^ 
fihali  have,  and  the  FictoJi/ialL 
and    the     Thervmgi.        Thai 
province    has    J  000    miles   in 
circuit» 


LIBER  VIII. 


\^7 


*  The  6f.th  others  wy, 


^.He  recovered  Armenia, 
which  the  Parthians  had  seil 
zed,  killing  Fharnaces  the  Sy. 
rmn,  who  had  it  in  possession. 
He  gave  a  King  to  the  Albans. 
He  received  the  King  of  the 
Iberians     end    Sauromatiantt, 


©rum  &  Arabum,    &  Os-  andoj  the  Bosfihorans  and  Ara- 

droenoium,Sc  Colchorum  bians,     and  of  the    Osdroenij 

in  fidem  accepit.   Adiabe-  and  of  the  Colchians  to  quarter* 

nos,    &   Marcomedes  oc-  He  reduced  too  the  *Adiabtni^ 

cupavit ;  &  An^hemisium  and   ^Marcomedi,        He    con^ 

maguam  P«rrsidis  region-  gut-red     too    Anthemifiium,     a 

em,    Selcuciam  &  Ctesi-  great  country  of  Persia,  \Se» 

phontem,    Rabylonem   &  leucia  and   ^Ctesi/ihon,  Baby» 

tdesbios  vicii,    ac  lenuit  ton    and  the    Edesfiiani,    and 

usque  ad    'ndiac  fines,  et  carried  all  before  him  as  far 

mjireRubrumacccssit:  at-  as  the  coasts  of  India  and  the 

queibitresprovincias fecit,  Ned    Sea;     and   there    mado 

Armeniam,      Assyriam,  three  provinces,  Armenia,  As* 

Mesopotamiam,  cum  his  syria  and   Mesopotamia,  with 

gentibus    quae     Macede-  thofte  nations  that  touch  upon 

nam  attingunt.    Arabiam  Macedena.        He     afterwards 

pogtea  in   provincia   for-  reduced  Arabia  into  the  form  of 

mam    redegit,    in     mari  a/2rovince,andftredoutafeei 

Ru')ro  classem    instituit,  u/ion    the    Red   Sea,    that    he 

ut    per  eam    Indiae    fines  might   by    ihat   lay  waste  the 

vastarct.  coasts  of  India. 

4    Gloriam  tamen  mi-         4.  Yet  he  outdid  the  military 

glory  by  his  modesty  and  mode» 
ration,  behaving  himself  as 
ufien  a  level  with  all  other 
people    at    Rome  and   in  the 

hiocns  :  amicos  salutandi  provinces,  frequently  attending 

giatia    frcquentans,     Tel  upon  his  friends  in  the  way  of 

agrotantes,    vel  cum  fes-  visiting  them, either  when  sick, 

tos  dies  habviissent,  con-  or  when    they  had  2kT)y  festival 

vivia  cum  iissdem  iiidis-  days,  celebrating  feasts    with 

creta     ricissim     habens,  them  without  distinction  in  his 

sxpc  in  vehlciilis  eorum  turn,  oftentimes  sitting  in  their 

fedens,nullumSenaiorum  chariots  with   them,    hurting 

laidens,  nihil  injustum  ad  none  of  the  Se?2ators.  and  rfo- 

•\ugendum  fiscum  agcns.  ing  nothing  inijust  to  fll  his 

Liberalis  in  cunctus,  pub-  exchequer»    Generous  to  even 


litarem  civilitate  et  mo- 
deratione  superavit,  Ro- 
mx  8c  per  provincias  a- 
qualem   se   omnibus  ex- 


*  A  people  of  Assyria,  beyond  the  river  Tigris. 

f  A  peojile  of  Assyria,  by  sonie  culled  Mardoniedi, 

+  A  city  lying  on  the  river  Tierris,  wJiere  it  joins  the  Euphrates. 

^  A  city  beyond  the  Tigris,  over  against  J3abyk>n. 


jfi 


128 


EUTRONI 


LIBER  VIII. 


12f 


lice  privalimque  ditans 
omnes  et  honor  ibus  au- 
gens,quosvel  mediocri  fu- 
mili'u'itate  cognovi-set  : 
or!  5e  m  terrarum  xdi  ficans, 
m'iliasimmunitatescivita- 
tibus  tiibuens,  nihil  non 
tranquillum  et  placidum 
agens  :  adeo  ut  omni  ejus 
aetate  unus  tantum  Sena- 
tor dainnatus  sit ;  at  is  ta- 
men  perScnatum,  ignor- 
ante  Trajano.  Ob  hoc  per 
orbem  terrarum  Deo 
proximus,  nihil  non  ve- 
nerationis  meruit  &  vi- 
vus  et  mortuus. 

5.  Inter  alia  dicta  hoc 
illius  fertur  egregium, 
amicis  enim  culpantibus, 
quod  nimis  circa  omnes 
comes  esset,  respondit ; 
talem  se  Imperatorem 
esse  privatis,  quales  esse 
sibi  Imperaiores  prira- 
tus  optasset.  Post  ingen- 
tcm  igitur  gloriam  bel- 
li domiq;  quxsitam  e 
Perside  rediens,  apud  Se- 
leuciam  Isaurisc  profluvio 
veniris  extinctus  est. 
Obiit  autem  xtatis  anno 
Ixii.  mense  nono  &  die 
quarto:  imperii  anno 
xix.  mense  vi.  die  xv. 
Inter  Divos  relatus  est, 
l||^sque    omnium   intra 


bodij^   fiublicly    and  firivately 
enriching  alU  and  raising  them 
by     great    places^     whom    he 
ivas  acquainted  with  but  by  a 
slight    familiariiy :      building 
towns  up  and  down  the  world; 
granting  many  immunities   to 
several  cities^    and  firactisitig 
every  thing  that  was  easy  and 
gentle:  so  that  in  all  his  time 
but  one  Senator  was  condemned^ 
and  he    too    by    the    Senate^ 
Trajan   being  ignorant  of  the 
matter.     7^or    this  being  ac- 
counted throughout  the  world 
as  next  to  a  God^  he  deserved- 
ly   had  all  manner  of  venera- 
tion both  alive  and  dead* 

5.  Amongst  other  sayings 
of  hiSf  this  excellent  one  is  re- 
lated of  him  ;  for  his  friends 
blaming  him  because  he  was 
over  courteous  to  all  fieople^  he 
replied^  that  he  was  such  an 
Emperor  to  his  subjects  as  he 
had  wishedy  when  a  subject y 
the  Emperors  should  be  to 
him,  Wherejore  after  the 
greatest  glory  got  in  war^  and 
at  homey  as  he  was  returning 
from  Persia^  he  died  of  a  loose*- 
nessy  at  Seleucia,  a  city  of 
Isanria,  He  died  in  the  *62d 
yeary  ^Jth  month,  and  4,th  day 
of  his  agcy  and  in  the  I9th 
year,  Sth  month,  and  \5th 
day  of  his  reign.  He  was  en- 
rolled  amongst   the  Divij  and 


urbem    sepuUus.      Ossa 
ejus    collata  in  urna  au- 
rea,  in  Foro  quod  sdifica- 
vit  sub  columna  sita  sunt, 
cujus  altitudo   cxliv.  pe- 
des   habet.     Hujus  tan- 
tum   memorix    delatum 
est,  ut  usque  ad  nostram 
aciatem,  iion  ali'er  in  Se- 
natu    principibus     accla- 
melur,    nisi   felicior  Au- 
guslo,    mehor     Trajano. 
Adeo  in  eo  gloria  bonita- 
tib  obiinuit,  uL  vel  assen- 
tantibus,vel  vere  lu'idan- 
tibus,  occasionem  raagni- 
ficentissimi    prxstet    cx- 
cmplif 


6.  Defuncto   Trajano, 
^lius   Adrianus    crealus 
est  princeps  ;  sine  aliqua 
quidem  voluniate  Traja- 
ni,     sed     operam    dante 
Piolina    Trajani    uxore  : 
nam       eum      Trajanus, 
quamquam  consobrins  fi- 
lium,  vivens  noluerat    a- 
doptare.     Natus  et  ipse 
Italicae  in  Hispania,    qui 
Trajani    gloriac  invidens, 
statim  provincias  tres  re- 
liquit,  quas  Trajanus  ad- 


•ahne    of  all   the  Emperors 
was   buried    within    the    city» 
His  bones  being  put  up    in  a 
golden  urn  lie    in   the    Forum 
which  he  built  under  a  pi  liar  j 
whose  height  has  \4Afect.      So 
much   respect  was  paid  to  his 
memory,  that  even   to  our  age^ 
■\they  cry   out   in   the  way    of 
acclamation    to  the    Emperors 
in    the   Senate,     no    otherwise 
than  thus    more  fortunate  than 
Jugustu-s\  better  than  Trajan, 
SomuchdiclthefayjK  cfhisgjod- 

?iess  prevail^  that  it  yields  the 
advantage  of  a  most  noble  ex- 
ample, either  to  those  .'hat  fat- 
ter^ Or  those  thai  siticii'tty  ccm^ 
mend, 

6.    Afier  Trajan   was  dead, 
jEhus  Jdrianus  was  made  Em- 
peror,   w.fhonr.    any    iiittnfion 
ij.dird  of  Trajan*  s.bv.t  through 
the    nu-ans   oj    ri-^Uf'U,   ira- 
jnn's^  lady y  giving  her  assistance 
for  il  ;  for  Trajan,   wliil  t    li- 
ving   would   r.ot    adopt    him^ 
though  hi^i   cousin* -i    son.     He 
too    was  born    at    Italic  a,     in 
Spain,  who  envying  the  gUry 
ef  Trajan,  immtdiat'Iy  quitted 
three  provinces,  which  Trajan 
had  added  to  the  Empire  ;  and 


*Thc63dItsliouldbc. 


*  Others  had  been  interred  in  the  city  as  well  as  Trajan,  though 
that  was  contrary  to  a  law  of  the  twe.ve  tables  ;  then;  bury,  ng  places 
amongst  the  anc.eats  were  generally  w.thout  then- cit.es  j  a  derent 
cleanly,  whelesoiue  custom,  which  ,t  .s  a  pity  Christians  cannot  se« 

fit  lo  imitate  them  in.  ^  i-    „  «.  *i  «•.. 

t  It  w  .s  now  become  a  custom  in  the  Senate  to  compliment    heir 

Emperors  oftentimes,    in  their  absence  t.^,,    w.th  -^^^^^'^'^^^^^^ 
;icclamatio..s   in   a  tumultuous  n.anner  i  of  which  several  inbtaacw 
tccur  in  the  writers  of  the  Aujjusian  history. 


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diidcrat:   8c    de  Assyria, 
Mesopotamia,    &  Arme- 
nia   rcvocavit  exercitus  ; 
ac  finem  imperii  tsr^e  vo- 
luit  Kuphratem.      Idem 
(le  Dacia  facere  conatum 
amici    (letcrruen.'nt  ;    ne 
niuiii  cives  Romani  Bar- 
baris  tradertniur  ;  prop, 
terea  quod  Trajan, ,s,  vie- 
ja   Dacia,    ex    toto  oibe 
Romano  infiniias  eo  co- 
p«as     homiiium    transtu- 
lerat,  ad  agros  et    uibes 
coJendas.      Dacia    enim 
diMturno    bdlo    Decibali 
viris  ft.erat  exhausta. 

7   Pacem  u\m^n  omni 
tempore  imperii  sui  ha- 
huh:  semel  tantum   per 
praesidem  dimicavit.   Or- 
bcm  Romauum  circumi- 
vil,  er    mulia    acdificuvit. 
racuudissimus       Latino 
serm<;ne,  Graco  eruciiiis- 
simiis   fuit.      Non   ma^- 
nani     ckinentia!      glori- 
am    habuii  :  dilij^^entibsi- 
nius     lamen     circa   xia- 
rium,  tt  militum  discipji- 
«am.     (/biit  in    Campa- 
nia,    major   sexa.q:enario, 
imperii  anno  xxi.  niense 
x.diexxix.  Senauis  ei  iri- 
buere  nolwii  divmo^   ho- 
nores;  tamen  cum   suc- 
ces  or  ipsii.s  liius  Anre- 
iius  Fulv  JUS  Antonms  hoc 
vehementer   exigerei,    Sc 
universi  Scnaiorts  palam 
resisterent,  tandem  obii- 
Mult. 


ivithdreiv  the  armies  from  M- 
Syria,  Mesopotamia  and  jirme- 
nia,  and  n^solved  that  the  Eu- 
fihrutes  should  be  the  boundary 
of  the    Em/lire,     His  friends 
dtttrred  him  upon  his  attcm/it- 
trg  to  do  the  ^anie  thing  by  Da- 
cia,  lest  many   of  the   Roman 
denizens  should  be  deliver td  up 
to     the     Barbarians;    because 
Trajan,  after  Dacia  was  con- 
quered, ^iadtran.sfilanltdanin^ 
fuite    number  of  men   thither^ 
Jrom  all  the  Roman  Empire,  to 
people  the  country  and  the  cities, 
-i' or  Dacia  had  been  exhausttd  of 
men.by  ihe  long  war  ojDc  ctbahis. 
7.  Yet  he  had  peace  through- 
out  the  ivhole  tune  of  his  reign  j 
he  only  for  once  mauuged  a  ivar 
by  a  governor. of  a  province. 
He  went  round  the  Roman  Em- 
ptre,and  raised  many  buildings, 
^le  uHis  very  eloquent    in    the 
Eatin  tongue,  and  very  learned 
tn  the  Greek;    he  had  no  great 
character  Jor    clemency;    but 
'Was    very  diligent   as    to    the 
treasury,  and  the  discipline  of 
the  soldiers.     He  died  in  Cam- 
pania^ above   60  years  old,  in 
the  2\kt  year,    10//r  mon  h  and 
29th    day  over   of  his   reign, 
^he  Senate  was  not  willing  to 
confer  d  vine  homers  upon  him  ; 
yet  when    his  successor   Titus 
Jiurelius  Eulvius  ^ntonius  ve- 
hemently insisted  upon  it,  and 
all  the   Senaiors  openly    oppo- 
sed ity  at  last  he  carried  it. 


LIBER  VIIL 


13J 


S.   Ergo  Adriano  suc- 
cessit  r.   Antonius   Ful- 
vius  Boionius,  idem  eli- 
am  Pius  nominatus  ;  ge- 
nere  claro,  sed  non  admo- 
dum  vetere  :  vir  insignis, 
et     qui     raerito     Numae 
Pompiiio  conferaiur;  ita 
ut  Romulo  Trajanus   s- 
quetur.       Vixit     ingenti 
honore  privatum  ;    majori 
in  Imperio ;    nulli    acer- 
bun,     cunctis     benignus 
in  re   militari   moderata 
gloria:   defendere  magis 
provincias  quam  amplifi- 
care  studcis  ;   viros  jus- 
tissimos  ad  udminisiran- 
dam  Rempv.blicani  qMX- 
rens  ;  bom-  honorem  ha- 
bens,  improbos  sine   ali- 
«jua  acerbitate  dctestans: 
regibus    amicis     venera- 
bilis    non    minus    (juani 
terribilis,  adeo  ut  Barba- 
roruni      plurimx     natio- 
nes,  depositis    armis   ad 
eum  contvoversias    suas 
liiesque    deferrent,    sen- 
tentiisque  ejus   parerent. 
Hie  ante  imperium  ditis- 
simus,  opes  quidein   su- 
as stipendiis   miliuim   & 
circa   amicos  liberaliiali- 
bus  minuit,  verum  acrari- 
um   opulentum    reliquit. 
Pius  propter  clementiam 
dictus    est.     Obiit   apnd 
Lorium     villam      suam, 
milliaria  ab  urbe  xii.  vitx 


8.  Wherefore  Titus  Antoni- 
us FulviuH  Boionius  succeeded 
Adrian,  the  same  who  was  tzcj- 
med  Pius,  oj  a  famous  family^ 
but  not  very  ancient ;  a  glorious 
mans  and  who  deservedly  may 
be  compared  with  Auma  J*om- 
pilins,  so  as  Trajan  may  be  e- 
quailed  to  Romtdus.      He  lived 
before  he  came  to  be  Emperor 
in  greac  glory,  but   in  gy-eater 
in  his  reign  ;  cruel  to  nobody, 
but  kind  f.o  all ;  of  an  hidijer- 
ent  character  for  military  mat- 
ters;   endeavoring    to     defend 
the  provinces    rather    than  en- 
large  th<m;    seeking  out   the 
most  just  men   to  inanage  the 
government ;   giving  honor  te 
the  goodc^nd  detesting  the  wic- 
ked,   without   any   cruelty    to 
them  ;  no  less  vent  rable  than 
terrible  to  Kingf,  allies  of  '  he 
Romans,  so  that  a  great  many 
natumx  of  the  Barba"ians,  lay- 
ing down  their  arms,  referred 
their  controversies  and  disputes 
to  him,  and  obeyed  his  determi- 
nation.      He    who    was   very 
rich  before  his  reign,  lessened 
his  wealth   by   the  pay  of  the 
soldiers,  and  his  bounty  to  his 
friends;  but  left  the   trcasiury 
rich.     He  was  surnamed  Pius, 
because  of  his  clemency.     He 
died   at   *Loriurn,    a    coimtry 
seat   of  his,  at   the   \2th    mile 
from  the  city,  in  ihe  7  2d  year  of 
his  life,  and  23d  of  his  reign, 
and  was  registered  amongst  the 


*  In  Tuscia. 


mil  iigliBlii     1  >  -ii~-'>!%4n   k-  ■ 


f  ^^^:i*AwJiga:?  J«wftaafcg&^a3feaarjh.<ttifltofefi^.^^ 


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LIBER  VilL 


153 


anno  Ixxiii.  imperii 
xxiii.  atque  inter  Dlvos 
relaius  est,  &  meiito  con- 
accratus. 

9.  Post  hunc  imperavit 
M.  AntoninuR  Verus: 
baud  dubic  nobilissimus: 
quippe  cum  ejus  origo 
patcrna  a  Niima  Pompi- 
lio,  materna  a  Salentino 
rcge  penderet ;  &  cum  eo 
L.  Annius  Antoninus  Ve- 
rus :  tumque  primum 
Romana  Respublica  duo- 
bus  xquo  jure  inijXTi- 
um  adminisirantibus  pa- 
ruit;  cum  usque  ad  eum 
singulos  semper  habuis- 
set  Aup^ustos. 

10.  Hi  et  genere  inter 
se  conjuncti  fuerunt,  et 
affinitate :  nam  Verus 
Annius  Antoninus  Marci 
Antonini  Hliam  in  matri- 
monium  habuit :  M.  An- 
toninus gener  Antonini 
Pii  fuit,  peruxorem  Gal- 
eriam    Faustinam  juuio- 

*rem  consobnnam  suam. 
Hi  bellum  contra  Parthos 
gesserunt,  qui  post  vic- 
toriam  Trajaui  turn  pri- 
mum rebc  Have  rant.  Ver- 
us Antoninus  ad  id  pro- 
fectus  est:  qui  Antiochix 
&  circa  Armeniam  a- 
gens,  mulia  per  duces  & 
ingentia  patravit;   Seleu- 


Divi,  a?:cl  ^deservedly    canon- 
ized» 


0.  After  him  reigned  M, 
Antoninus  Verus^  very  noble^ 
no  doubt  ;  since  his  extraction 
by  the  father  ivas  devivedfrom 
JVumu  Pomfiilius^  and  by  the 
mother  from  a  King  of  the  Sa- 
lentines  ;  and  noith  him  L.  An- 
nius Antoninun  Verus  :  and  then 
firbt  did  the  RomanEmpire  obey 
tivo  managing  the  gsvernmcn'. 
with  equal  right  ;  uuhercas  till 
him  it  had alioays  but  one  Em- 
fieror  at  a  time. 


10   7 hese  were  united  in  re- 
lation and  affinity  too  ;  Jor  Ve- 
rus Annius  Antoninus  had  in 
marriage  the  daughtrr    of    M. 
Antoninus  ;  AL  Antoninus  wa» 
son-in-law  of  AnioninusPiua^by 
hisiufe    Gaieria   Faustina  the 
younger^his  cousin.  These  carri- 
ed on  a  war  against  theParthi- 
ans,  ivho   ajttr    the  conquest  of 
ihiimbyTrujanJiudthenfirst  re- 
belled.  Verus  Anton  inus  went  to 
that  war  ;  ivho  continuing   at 
Antioch    and  about    Armenia^ 
fierformed     many     and   great 
things   by    his    Generals.      Ik 
took  Seleucia,  a  most  noble  city 
of  Assyria,  with  five  hundred 
thousand  men  ;   he  brought  off 


tiam  Assyria  uibem  no- 
bilissimam  cum  d.  milli- 
bus  hominumcepit:  Par- 
thicum  iriumphum  re- 
vcxit,  cum  fratre  eodem- 
que  socero,  triumphavit. 
Obiit  lamen  in  Venetia, 
cum  a  Concordia  civiiale 
Altinum  proficisceretur, 
&  cum  fratre  in  vehlculo 
sederet,  subito  sanguine 
ictus,  casu  morbi  quern 
Gropci  apoplexin  vocant : 
vir  ingeniiparum  civilis, 
reverentia  tamen  fratris 
nihil  unquam  atrox  au- 
sus.  Cum  obiisset  x'u  im- 
perii annos,  inter  Divos 
relatus  est. 

1 1.  Post  eum  Marcus 
Antoninus  solus  rempub- 
licam  tenuit,  vir  quern 
mirari  facilius  quis  quam 
laudare  possit.  A  prin- 
cipio  vitx  tranquilissi- 
mus;  adeo  ut  in  infan- 
tia  quoque  vultum  nee  ex 
gaudio,  nee  ex  moerore 
mutaret.  Fhilosophix 
deditus  Stoics,  ipse  e- 
tiam  non  solum  vita: 
moribus,  sed  eiiamerudi- 
lione  philosophus,  tantat 
admirationis  adhuc  ju- 
venis,     ut    eum   succes- 


firojier  furniture  Jor  a  triumpfi 
over  the  Parthians,  and  tri- 
umphed with  his  brother,  and 
the  sa?ne  his  faiher-in-law.  He 
died  ill  *  Venetia,  as  he  wait 
going  from  the  city  of  Concor- 
dia to  Altinum,  and  was  siltirg 
in  the  chariot  with  his  brother, 
bei?:g  struck  suddenly  with  an 
eruption  of  blood,  which  dis- 
temjttr  ihe  Greeks  call  apO' 
plexis  ;  a  man  of  no  very  mo- 
derate temper,  however  not  da- 
ring at  any  time  to  do  any  thing 
very  horrid,  out  of  reverence 
to  his  brother,  .4fter  he  was 
dead,  in  the  eleventh  year  of 
his  reigyi,  ^he  was  raiikcd  a- 
jnongst  gods, 

1 1 .  After  h  im  Marcus  An- 
toninus held  the  government  a- 
lone ;  a  man  whom  any  one 
may  more  easily  admire  than 
sufficiently  commend.  He  was 
very  composed  from  the  begin- 
ning of  his  lije  ;  so  that  in  his 
infancy  too,  he  neither  changed 
his  countenance  for  joy  nor  sor- 
row. He  was  addicted  to  t  he 
Stoic  philosophy,  being  him- 
self a  philosoper^  7iot  only  in 
his  manner  of  life,  but  leaim- 
ingtoo,  the  object  of  so  much 
admiration,  whilst  yet  a  youth, 
that  Adrian  designed  to  leave 


*  This  single  passage,  if  atten<!erl  to,  mij^ht  have  prevented  anv 

!;•  ^,  '  L'''';^'  T  ^^"''■^?'"^  f«r  ■*  Christian-  and   1  wonder  it  ua's 
•verlooked  by  Vossius. 


*  A  coinitry  in  the  north  part  of  Italj',  whereabouts  Venice  is. 

t  It  is  amazing  that  a  person  of  so  mnch  goodness  and  sense  as  thi« 
M.  Antociinus  could  prevail  with  himself  to  comply  with  a  custom  «o 
aboininahly  absurd  and  impious.  This,  and  his  not  taking  care  at 
iiis  death  to  prevent  the  same  wicked,  senseless  coraplimewt  being 
I>aid  to  his  owij  memory,  would  almost  tempt  one  to  suspect  tiiat  b« 
«•«>!*,  with  all  his  good  qualities,  no  better  thaii  a  downright  atlieist. 

M 


.•a-  Aii*i^rt —  •7nrttiiii**-*^~''-*-'-'''-'^-i«fe^a.  jaBawa^ai 


i3i 


EUTROPII 


LIBER  V!li. 


U5 


sorem  paraverit  Adrian- 
us    relinquerc,    adoptato 
tamen      AiUonino      Pio 
geneium   esse  ei  idcirco 
voluerit,    ut  hoc   ordine 
ad  imperium  perveniret. 
12.    Institutus    est  ad 
philosophiam    per  Apol- 
lonium  Chalcedoniuin»  ad 
scicntiam  Gisccarum  lit- 
terarum  per  Sextum  ChsE- 
ronenseni    Plularchi   ne- 
potem.  Latinas  autein  lit- 
teras  eiim  Fronto  orator 
nobilissimus  docuit.    Plic 
cum    omnibus  Romx  x- 
quojureegit,  ad  nullam 
insoleniiam     elalus    im- 
perii fastu  :     libcralitatis 
promptissiinx;  provincias 
ingcnli      benignitate     8c 
modcratione       tractuvit. 
Contra      Germanos      eo 
principe  resfelicitergestx 
sunt.  Bellum  ipse  unum ; 
sed  quantum    nulla  mc- 
moria  fuit,  adtjo  ut  Puni- 
cis   conferatur ;    nam  eo 
gravius  est  factum,  quod 
universi    exercitus    per- 
ierant ;     sub    hoc    enim 
tantus   casus   pestilenii» 
iuit,  ut  post  victoriam  Per- 
sicam  Roniae,  ac  per  Ita- 
liam  provinciasque  max- 
ima hominum  pars,   mi- 
lilum  omnes  fere  copia 
langnorc  defecerint. 


him  his  successor;  hoiuever, 
adopting  ^dntoniniis  Pins,  he 
had  a  mirid  he  should  be  smj- in. 
law  to  him^  that  he  might  come 
in  that  order  to  the  Empire, 

12,     He  ivas  traivcd   tip  to 
philo^ofihy  by    Jilipollonius  the 
Chalccdoiiian ;     to   the    knoiv- 
ledge    of  the  Greek  tongue    by 
Sextus     of      Char  on  f  a,      the 
grandson  of  Plutarch  ;  but  the 
most     noble     Orator     Fronto 
taught  hi?n  the  J.atin  tongue. 
He    behaved   himself  ivith    all 
people  at  Rome  as  upon  an  c- 
qual  footing  ;  he  was  elevated 
by  the  pride  of  dominion  to  no 
insolence:     a  person    of    ihc 
most    frank     generosity ;     he 
treated  the  provinces  ivith  huge 
kindness  and  moderation.  Mat- 
ters were  successfully  managed 
against    the    Germa7ifi     imdcr 
this  Prince,      He  himself  car- 
ried on  one  war  against  them, 
the   Marcomannick :    but    so 
great  a  o?ie,  as  ivas  in  ?io  time 
before,  so  that  it  may  be  com- 
pared with   the    CartJiaginian ; 
Jor  it  was  so  much    the  more 
dangerous^  because  all  the  ar- 
mies had  been  lost  ;  for  uJidrr 
him  there  was  so  great  a  cala- 
mity of  a  pestilence^  that  after 
the  overthrow  of  the  Peri>ians^ 
the  greatest  part    rf  mc7i    at 
Pome  throughout  Italy  and  the 
provinces^  and  almost    all   the 
forces    were  taken  cff  by  this 
sickness. 


y 


I 


13.  Ingenti  trgolabore 
S^  mr>dcratione,  cum  a- 
pud  Carnunium  jugi  tri- 
ennio  perseverasset,  bel- 
lum       Marcom-diuiicum 


IS.  Jftcr  he  had  therefore 
continued   three    whole    years 
with  great  toil  and  patience  at 
Carnuntimiy  he  made  an  end  if 
the  Marcomannick  war,  which 

confecit,    quod    cum   his  together  with    the?n,  the  Qua- 

Quadi,    Vandali,   Sarma-  dians,     Vandals,     SarmatianSf 

I  re,    Suevi,    atque  omnis  Sueva7is,  and   all  the    Barba- 

Barbaria     commoverat  :  riansonihixt  ^nX^  had  raitied ; 

mulla    hominum    millia  he    slew   many    thousands    of 

interfecit :     ac  Pannoniis  men;    and    having    delivered 

strvilio  liberatis,    Rom;c  the  Pannonians  from   slavery, 

rursus     cum    Commodo  he  triumphed   again  at   Rome 

Antonino  lilio  suo,  quern  with  his  son  Commodus  Jntoni- 

jamCffisarem  fccerat,  tri-  7nis,    whom    he    had    already 

umphavit.   Ad  hujus  belli  made    *Cc?sar,     The  treasury 

sumptum    rcrario  exhau-  being  exhausted  for  the  support 

sto,cumlargitionesnuilas  of  this  war,  having  no  money 

haberet,    U'jq  ;      indiccre  to  give  his  soldiers,  and  not  be- 

provincialibiis  aut  Senului  iug  willing  to  lay  any  thing  of 

aliquid  vellet,  instrumcn-  tax  upon  the  provincials  or  thtt 

turn  regii  cultus,  f.icta  in  iicnate.he  sold  off  his  own  impe- 

Foro    bivi  Trajani  sect-  rial  fumUure,  byaretailmude 

ione,  dislraxit  ;   vasa  au-  thereof  in  (he  Porum  of  Divus 

rea,  pocula  crystalliiia  Sc  Trajunus,  i.  e.  /i/v  gold  plate, 

murrina,   uxoi'iam  ac  su-  his  cups  of  chryi^tul  and  porce- 

am  sericam,    ac  aurcam  laiti,  his  lady's   and    h:s   own 

vestem,  multa  ornaracnta  silk  clo/hcs,   and   crnbriiderid 

gemmarum:  ac  per  duos  with  gohU  besides  ?//««?/ or;ia- 

conlinuos  menses  vendi-  vu-nts  (fjrw.d^  ;  and  (he  sal:: 

tio  habita  est  mull umqi'c  was  continued  Jor  two   whole 

auri   redaclum.   Post  vie-  months  togdhevy  and  much  rno- 

toriam  lamcn  emptoribas  ney   made  of  them,      YeJ  after 

pretia  resiiluit,   qui  red-  the    conijv.est   of    the    Maico- 

(!i<dVkt     comparala    volue-  manni,  he  restored  the  prices 

runt :  mclt^stus  nuili  fuit,  to   the  purchasers,   who  were 

qui  maluit  aemel  empta  willuig  to  return  what  they  had 


relmere. 


got  ; 


but /if  was  troublesome  to 


*  From  Au.s^kIus'  time,  tlic  title  of  Csesar  nnd  Augustus  liad 
heon  give»  to  the  llmpcrors  only ;  i>ut  now  that  of  C:isar  was  appio- 
prialed  to  the  pors?»  ulijjn  the  Kiunoror  (lesigiied  and  noDiinated  fur 

eh  'sucociKoi'. 


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1 4.    Hie  permisit  viris 
clarioribus,     ut  convivia 
eodem    culto   quo    ipse, 
et  niinistris  simiUbtis  ex- 
hiberent.      In      edilione 
muiierum  post  vicloriam 
iicleo  magnificu^  fuit,  ut 
centum  simul  leones  ex- 
hibiiisse  tradatur.     Cum 
igitur    forlutiatam    rem- 
publicam     5c     virtute   8c 
mansuelucJine     recldidis- 
set,    obiit   xviii.    imperii 
anno,  vitxJxi.  &  omnibus 
certatim  adnitentibus,  in- 
ter  Divos  relalus  est. 

'5.  Hujus  successor  L. 
Antoninus     Commodus, 
njbil    paternum    habuit, 
nisi  quod  contra  German- 
OS  fcliciter  &  ipse  pug. 
navit.  Septembrem  men- 
sem   ad    nomen    suum 
transfcrre  conatus  est,  ut 
Commodus       diceretur : 
sed  luxuria  Sc  obsccenitatc 
depravatus,      gladiatoris 
armis  sscpissimc   in  ludo 
deincepg  ctiam  in  ampni- 
iheatro   cum   huju^modi 
hominibus  sspe   dimica- 
viu     Obiit  morte  subita, 
adeo  ut  stranguiaiub,  vel 
veneno   interfectus  puta- 


nobody^   who    chose  rather     to 
keeji  nvhat  they  had  once  bought, 
14.   He  gave    leave   Iq  the 
great    men  to  make  entertain^ 
ments  with  the  same  furniture 
and  the  like  servants  as  him- 
self.    In     the    exhibiting     of 
games  after  his  victory   over 
the   Marcomanni,    he  was  sq 
magnijicent,  that  he  is  said   to 
have  produced  a  hundred  Uoub 
together»     lifter    therefore    ht 
had  rendered  the  Em/iire  hap. 
py  by  his  good  management  and 
gencleness^  he  died  in  the  *\^th 
year  of  his  reign,  and  6ist  of 
his  age,  and  all  people  eagerly 
contending  for  ii  ;  he  wai  rank^ 
edamo7igst  the  Gods, 

1  5.  Ilia  successor  L»  ^nto- 
ninus    Commodus  had  not/ting 
of  his  father,  but  that  he  like- 
wise fought  successfully  against 
the  Germans.     He  endeavored 
to  bring  \the  month  of  ii'ept em- 
ber to  his  own    name,    that   it 
might  be  called  Commodus  ;  but 
being  corrupted  by  luxury  and 
lewdness,  he  of  en  times  fought 
with   gladiator's  arms  in    the 
fencing  school,  and  at  the  last 
too  in  the   amphitheatre    with 
that   sort  of  men.     He  died  a 
sudden  death,  so   that  \he  was 
thought  either  to  be  strangled, 
or  disfiatched    by  poison,  after 
he  had  reigned  twelve  years  and 


*  Others  say  17. 

f  The  month  of  Au-ust  h«  should  have  said. 
^  iU  was  Uist  poisomxi;  but  for  fear  that  should  not  take  effect 
Ao  vvai»  smothered  in  his  bedclothes.     See  Heroduvu  * 


LIBER  Vlir. 


1 


o< 


retur :  cum  annis  xii.  eight  months  from  his  father, 
])ost  palrem,  Sc  viii.  men-  with  so  much  hatred  of  all 
sibus  imperassetjlanta  ex-  people,  that  even  after  he  was 
ecratione  omnium, ut  hos-  dead,  he  was  declared  an  cue- 
tis  humani  generis  ctiam  my  oj  mankind, 
morluus  judicaretur. 

16.  Huic  successit  Per-  16.  Pertiiiax,  now  very  el, 
tinax  grandacvus  jam  ;  ut  derly,  succeeded  him,  as  who 
qui  septuagenariam  atti-  had  reached  his  70th  year, 
gisset  Ktatem,  Pra^fectu-  t/icn*  bearing  the  office  of  Go- 
ram  urbi  tum  agens,  ex  vernor  of  the  city,  being  order- 
Senatus  consulto  impe-  cd  by  a  decree  of  the  Senate  to 
rare  jussus  Octogesimo  reign.  He  was  slain  the  SOth 
imperii  die  Pi-aetoriano-  day  of  his  reign,  in  a  mutiny 
rum  mililum  sedifione,  vf  the  I-'rjstorian  soldiers,  and 
Sc  Juliaiii  scelere  occisus    by  the  villainy  cf  Julian, 

est. 

17.  Post  eum  Salvius  17.  ,4fter  him  Salvias  Ju- 
Julianus  renipublicam  in-  liunus  seized  the  government  ; 
vasit;  vir  uobilis,  Sc  juris  a  nobleman,  and  very  well 
periiisbimus  ;  nepos  Sal-  skilled  in  the  law  ;  grandson  to 
vii  Juliani,  (jiii  sub  Divo  Salvius  Julian,  who  under  Di- 
Adi'iano  perptluum  com-  vesyJdrianus  composedf  theper- 
posuit  edictum.  Victus  pet ual  edict.  He  was  defeated 
est  aSevero  apudMulvium  by  Scverus,  near  the  Mulvian 
pontem,  interfcctus  in  biidge,  and  slain  in  the  palace, 
palalio  :  vixit  mensi!)us  He  lived  but  seven  months  after 
iieptem,  pnstquam  coepe-    he  began  to  reigri, 

rat  impe  rare. 

18.  Uinc  Imperii  Ro-  18.  Upon  this  Sept imius  Se- 
mani  adminisirationem  verus  took  upon  him  the  ad- 
Scptimius  Severus  acce-  ministration  of  the  Roman  Em- 
pit,  oriundus  ex  Africa,  fiire ;  a  native  of  Africa,  the 
piovincia        Tripolitana,    province  of  Trijiolis,  and  the 


*  Under  the  Emperors  Ihcro  was,  besides  the  Consuls,  an  officer  of 
jrreaL  po'.vtr,  naaicd  Pi\ef'c(tiis  nrhn. 

t  Jho  I'raetors,  in  entering  upon  their  office,  pjiblislied  apioclania- 
fion  <o  notify  to  the  people  the  method  acmrding  to  which  they  inten- 
ilto(  to  procci^d  in  the  administratiiMj  of  justue  for  their  year.  These 
^^  eie  oflen  dilicrent  from  one  anoth^ir,  till  this  perpetual  edict  by  wiiicU 
'-^^ii*:  ujjujterahle  Junii  of  prucceuinir  was  lixe<K 

M  3 


\.      \'*'('<»tf-\^*: 


'-jjaimmM 


m):i^i^.h::JamsiBiiMs,i&iJSiifL^j!L.  .i^kv.^^. 


h'.S'.=M,-.i.. '-?  Ji- 


.  Jigv.jBa^jitsiAeB«)»*iiuB8rtf--.«>y«gM<^^ 


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LIBER  Vlir. 


ICO 


nppido  Lep'.i.  Solus  om- 
)ii  m;rm*iria  8c  ante  8c 
jostea  ex  Africa  Imptra- 
l  r  full.  llic  primum 
i:-.ci  advocalus,  mox 
Diiluiuis  Tiibumis,  per 
niiilia  (leindc  Sc  varia  offi- 
cia  alqoc  honores  usque 
ad  adminislraUoncm  toli- 
iis  reipiiblicx  pervenit. 
Pcriir.acem  sc  appellari 
voluit^  in  honorem  ejus 
Peilinacis,  qui  a  Juliano 
fuerat  occisus.  Parens 
adinodum  fuit,  naiura 
sagvus.  Belli  multa  & 
feliciter  ijessit.  Pescen- 
niiim  Nigrum,  qui  in 
.Ei^yplo  £c  Syria  rebella- 
verat,  apiid  Cyzicum  in- 
terfecit.  Pariljos  vicit  : 
Arabas  eo  usque  supera- 
vit,  ut  ctiam  provlnciam 
ibi  fuccrel  ;  idrirco  Par- 
thicus  et  Arabicus  dicius 
est.  iVIulia  toto  Romano 
orbe  lepuravit.  Siib  eo 
etiani  Clodius  Albinus, 
qui  in  occidendo  Peni- 
nacc  socius  fuerat  Juli- 
ano, Cresartrm  se  in  Gitl- 
lia  ftcit:  victusque  apud 
Lugdununi  est  et  inier- 
fecius. 

19.  Severn  s  autem 
prjctcr  beJlicum  gloriam, 
etiam  civilibus  studiis 
clarus  fait,  8c  iitteris  doc- 


iown  of  Leptis,  He  ivas  the 
only  one  from  Jfricafor  all  'he 
time  both  before  and  after ^  that 
was  Einfieror,  He  was  frst 
an  advocate  of  the  exchequer^ 
after  that  a  military  tribune, 
and  then  through  several  offices 
and  posts  of  honour^  came  to 
the  government  of  the  whole 
em/lire.  He  had  a  mind  to  be 
called  Pertinax,  in  honour  of 
that  Pertinax,  nvho  had  been 
slain  by  Julian,  He  was  very 
frugal,  and  by  nature  cruel. 
He  managed  fna?iy  wars,  and 
successfully.  He  slew  Pescen- 
nius  ,\'iger,  who  had  rebelled 
in  Egy/it  and  Syria,  at  Cyzi- 
cus.  He  overthrew  the  Par- 
thians,  and  so  subdued  the  A- 
rabians,  that  he  made  a  pro- 
vince too  there  ;  for  which  he 
was  called  Parthicus  andyJrabi- 
cus.  Ife  repaired  a  great  ma- 
ny buildings  throughout  the 
whole  Romayi  empire.  Under 
him  too  Clodius  Albinus,  who 
had  been  an  accomplice  of  Ju- 
lian in  killing  Pertinax, 
made  himself  *Emperor  in 
Gaul,  and  was  defeated  at  Ly- 
ons and  slain. 


19.  J^ut  Severus,  besides 
his  warlike  glory,  was  Jamous 
Ukcwisefor  the  arts  cf  peace, 
and  well  instructed  in  litera- 


tus,pbilosophix  scieniiam 
ad  plenum  adeplus.  No- 
vissinuim  bellum  in  Bri- 
tannia habuit  :  utque  re- 
ceptas  provincias  omni 
securitate  muniret,  val- 
lum per  xxxii.  millia 
passu um  a  mari  ad  mare 
deduxit.  Decessit  Ebora- 
ci  admodum  senex,  im- 
perii anno  xviii.  mense 
iv.  et  Divus  appellalus 
est :  nam  filios  suos  suc- 
cessores  reliquit,  Bassia- 
num  et  Getam  :  sed  Bai- 
siano  Antonini  nomen  a 
Senatu  voluit  imponi ; 
?laque  dicius  est  M.  Au- 
relius  Antoninus  Bassi- 
anus,  patrique  successor. 
Nam  Geta  hosiis  piibli- 
cus  judicatus,  confesiim 
peri  it. 

20.  Marcus  igitur  Au- 
relius  Antoninus  Bassi. 
anus,  idomque  Caracai- 
I.i,  monim  fere  pa  ler- 
norum  fuit,  paulo  a>peri- 
or  et  minax.  Opus  Ro- 
ma? egregium  fecit  lava- 
cri,  qu;c  Antoninianx  ap- 
pellantur,  nihil  prictcrea 
memorabile  :  impaliens 
libidinis,  ut  qui  novercam 
suam  Jiiliani  uxorem 
duxerit.  De  functus  in 
Osdroene  apud  Edessani, 
mulicns    adversum    Par- 


ture,  having  made  himself 
master  of  fihilosopihy  to  perfec- 
tion.  The  last  war  he  had  was 
in  Britain,  and  that  he  ?nighC 
secure  the  provinces  he  acguir- 
ed  with  all  safety,  he  drew  a 
line  Jor  32  miles  from  sea  to 
sea.  He  died  at  York  very 
old,  in  the  *\8th  year  and  4t/i 
month  of  his  reign,  and  was 
called  a  god ;  for  he  left  his 
sons  Bassianus  and  Geta  his 
successors :  \but  he  had  a  mind 
that  the  name  of  Antoninus 
should  be  given  by  the  Senate 
to  Baf^sianus  only ;  and  ac- 
cordingly he  was  called  A/.  Au- 
relius  Antoninus  Bassia7ius, 
and  was  successor  to  his  father, 
^For  Geta  being  declared  a 
public  enemy,  was  quickly  dis- 
patched, 

20.  Wherefore  M.  Aurelius 
Anio7iinus  Bassianus,  and  the 
same  Caracalla  loo,  was  a 
man  pretty  much  of  his  fa- 
thef^s  temper,  bul  a  little 
more  rugged  and  threatening. 
He  mide  an  excellent  work  of 
a  bath  at  Rom(\  vjhich  is  calleel 
Antoninus*  hath,  l)ut  nothintr 
else  remarkable,  unable  to  go- 
vern his  lust^  «?  who  married 
his  stip mother  Julia.  He  died 
in  Osdroene  at  Kdcssa,  as  he 
was  attempting  an  expedition 
aralnst    the  Parthians,  in   the 


^-  Our  author  n<^es  the  word  C-rsar  improperlv  hero,  fur  that  was  now 
.ippropnated  to  the  dcsi-ned  heir  of  the  Empire,  as  I  have  before  taken 
liorire. 


% 


•'»'•  He  reigned  only  17  yeai.^,  T  months  nnvl  3  d.:ys. 
f  'i'licv  b  tij  jiH(l  tiie  na'.r.e  of  Antoninns. 

-f.  fief  a  w  as  nutdccljiicd  a  public  enemy  till  after  he  was  unudered 
i'y  his  brother. 


4 


■■»'J^     ■«»■    l-V. 


twa'-JiMV-»  <t.X  ■=«.  'fcV.rri 


■4-Aa^l^«^^rf^Li^l#^:r^^..^^AS^Mt^ 


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LIBER  VIII. 


I4t 


thos  expcdiilonem,  anno 
imperii  vi.  mense  ii.  vix 
egressus  xtalis  xliii. 
annum,  funero  publico 
elalus. 

21.       Opilius     dcincle 
Macrinus,  qui    Prxfectus 
Prztorio  erat,    cum  filio 
Diadumeno,    fucti  Impe- 
ratores,    nihil    memora- 
bile    ex    temporis  brevi. 
tate  gesserunt :  nam  im- 
perium      eorum     duum 
mensium  et  unius    anni 
fuit:     sediriona    militari 
ambo  pariter  occisi  sunt. 
22  Creatus  est  post  hos 
M.  Aurelius  Antoninus  ; 
Antonini  Caracallx  iiiius 
putabitur;  sacerdos    au- 
tem  Ileliogabali  tcmpll  e- 
rat.      Is,    ci  .1    liomam 
ingenti  et  militum  ct  Se- 
natus  expcctatione  venis- 
set,  probiis    se  omnibus 
conlaminavit.       Impudi- 
cissime   et  obseccnibsiinc 
vixit,  biennioque  post    et 
yiii.    niensibus    tumultu 
interfeciiis     militari,     et 
cum    eo    mattr     Scmia 
Syra. 

23.  Succces'sit  huic 
Aurelius  Alexaiuh.-r,  ah 
exerciUi  Cncar,  a  Senutu 
Au{;uslus  nominalus,  ju- 
veriisadmcdum  :  suscto- 
toque  adversub  Teria  bel- 


Cith   year  and  accoiid  month   of 
his  reigji^  being    scarce  out  of 
the    43i/  year  of  his  age,  aiid 
tvas  buried  ivii'h  a  fiublic  fune- 
ral, 

21.   The7L  0/iilius  Macrinus, 
noho  was  Cafitain  of  the  guards, 
with  his  son  Diadumenus,  were 
made    Emfierors,    but  did  no- 
thing  ir-.norable,  by  reason  of 
the  shortness  of  their  ti?ne  ;  for 
tl  :ir  reign   loas    but    of  two 
7nc>iths  and  a  year.    They  vj^re 
both  together  slain  in  a  mutiny 
of  the  soldiers, 

22.   M.  Aurelius  Anton  inns 
ivas  made  Km  \^iivov after  these  ; 
he  was  thought  to  be  the  Son 
of  Antoninus  Caracalla  ;    how- 
ever, he  Tjas  pricfit  of  the  tetn- 
file  of    *Heliogabalus,      After 
he   h'ld   come  to   Rome,    with 
mighty  expectation,  both  of  the 
soldiers  and  the  Senate,  he  de- 
based himself  ivitk  all  manner 
of   abominations.       He     lived 
most  lewdly    and  moat  filthily, 
and  was  slain  in  a  tumult  cfthe 
Holdiers,  two  ^ years  and  tight 
months    after,      and    together 
with     hint    his    mother    Scmia 
Syra. 

23  Aurelius  Alexander  suc- 
cecdtd  him,  being  declared  Ca- 
fiar  by  the  ar;;iy/and  Augustus 
by  the  Senate,  when  very 
young  ;  and  undertaking  a  vuir 
against  the  Persians,   defeated 


*  A  stran-e  <ort  ,.f  a  irod  worsliipjjcd  by  tli«  Syrians- 
-,  ixe  ic.gucd  thive  years,  nine  months  and  four  da  s. 


lo,  Xerxem  eorum  re- 
gem  gloriosissime  vicit: 
mililarem  disciplinam 
sevcrissime  rexit,  quas- 
dam  lumnlluantes  legi- 
one«  intjgras  exauclora- 
vit.  Assessorem  habuit, 
vel  scrinii  magisiium, 
Ulpianum  juris  condjto- 
rem.  Uomic  quoque  ta- 
vorabilis  iuit.  Peiiit  in 
Gallia,  militari  lumuliu, 
decimo  tertio  imper'i 
anno  et  die  octavo,  in 
inatrem  suam  Mamtnrs- 
am  unice  pius. 


most  gloriuusly  their  King* 
Xerxes  :  He  exacted  military 
difciJdivLe  very  strictly,  and 
disbanded  £o?rie  entire  legions 
that  mutinied»  He  had  for 
hid  assessor,  or  Secretary  of 
State,  Ulpian,  the  compiler  of 
the  law.  He  was  likewise  in 
great  favour  at  Rome.  He  lost 
his  life  in  Gaul,  in  a  militarij 
tumult,  in  the  \  3fh  year  and  8th 
day  of  his  reign,  having  been 
extremely  dutiful  to  his  mother 
Mammae  a* 


*  He  is  cftlled  by  others  Aiiaxcrses;  he  put  an  end  tuthc  Eni^/if* 
«f  the  Parthiaus,  by  slaying  Artabauus,  the  last. of  the  ioc€  oitlm 
Arsacidx, 


is&ii 


s^^rgyafjs»'^ 


ii.tMB8i^iMiB»iMM.A*        '  "      ''' 


LIBER  IX. 


US 


EUTROPII 


BREVIARIUM 


IIISTORLE  ROMANS. 


•    7|^    «  ■ 


LIBER  IX. 


1 


OST  luinc  ?/Iaxi mi- 
nus ex  ccrpore  militari 
piimiji  ad  imjKTiuni  ac- 
ccssil,  sola  militum  vo- 
luntatc,  cum  niillii  Sena- 
tus  interccssfsset  auctori- 
las,  neq'ie  ipse  Senator 
csset.  Is  bello  adversiis 
Germanos  fclicitcr  ges- 
to,  cum  amilitibus  esstt 
Imperator  appi^Hatus,  a 
Pupieno  Aquileiai  occi- 
sus  csl,  dtserentibuseiim 
miliiibus  suis,  cum  filio 
adhuc  puero,  cum  quo 
imperaverat  tiicniiio,  et 
paucis  diebus. 

S.Postealres  simul  Au- 
gust! fuerunt;  Pupienus, 
Balbinus,  et  Gordianus, 
duo  supeiiores  obscuris- 
simo  genere,  Gordianus 
nobilis  :  quippe  cujus  pa- 


A 


FTER    him     Maximtnu» 
came   to   the  Emfdre^  the  firtt 
that  did  so  from   the  body    of 
the    co?n77ion    srkliery^  by    the 
election    of  the   soldiers    only, 
':vhilst  no  authority  of  the    Se- 
nate interjiosed^    nor  ivas  he  a 
Senator,     He    having   carried 
on  the  ivar  successfully  against 
the  Germans^  and  being  there- 
fore /iroclaimcd   Emperor    by 
the  soldiers.,  ivas    slain  at   J- 
(jvileia  by   Pupienus.,   ivith   hit 
son,  as  yet  but  a   boy^  his  aol- 
diers    forsaking     him;     ivith 
iihich  son  he  had  reigned  three 
years  and  afeiv  days, 

2.  ^Iftervoards  there  iverr 
three  Emfierors  together,  J^u- 
piemic,  Balbinus  and  Gordian  ,- 
t/ic  tivo  former  of  very  obscurt 
birthy  Gordian  noble.  For 
his  *faihir^   the   eld  Gordian] 


*  Others  cay  he  ^va^  hi<  ir-.i;)'.ir:!t!  «r. 


1 


ter     senior     Gordianus, 
consensu  militum,    cum 
Proconsulalum       Africx 
gererct,    Maximino  im- 
perante,  princeps  fuisset 
electus.       Itaque,      cubi 
Romam  venissent  Balbi- 
nus ct  Pupienus,  in  pala- 
tio  interfecti    sunt,     soli 
Gordiano  Imperium    r'j- 
servatum,  Gordianus  ad- 
mouuni  puer,  cum  Tran- 
quillinaai  Rom;c  duxisset 
uxorem,    Jaaum     gemi- 
num  aperuit :    ct  ad  Ori- 
entem     profeotus,      Par- 
tbis    bellum    intulit,    qui 
jam  moliebantur  erumpe- 
re,    quod    quidem    mox 
feliciter    gessit,    prrcliis- 
que  ingentibus  Persas  af- 
flixit.        Rediens       baud 
longe  a  Romanis  finibus 
interfcctus       est     fraude 
Phillippi,    qui  post  eum 
imperavit.     Miles  ei  tu- 
mulum    vigcsimo    milli- 
ario  a  Circesso,  quod  ca- 
strum  nunc  Romanorum 
est  ,Eupbraii    imminens, 
xdificavit,    exequias  Ro- 
mam revexit,  ipsum  Di- 
vum  appellavit. 

3.  Pbilippi  duo,  filius 
et  pater,  Gordiano  occiso, 
imperium  invaserunt : 
atque  exercitu  incolumi 
veducto,     ad    I  tali  am    e 


when  he  had  the  Proconsulate 
of   Jlfrica,     in    the    reign    ef 
Maximinus^    had  been    chosen 
Emperor  by  the  consent  of  the 
Soldiers,        IVhere/ore^    ivhen 
Balbimis  and  Pupienus  came  to 
Rome,  they  vjcre  slain    iri   the 
palace,  and  the  Empire  reser- 
ved for  Gordian  alone,     Gor- 
dian   being    but  a    boy,    ajter 
he  had  married  Tranquilla  at 
Rome,  jhe  opened  the  temple 
of    doubl-j    faced    Janus,    and 
inarching   to    the    Elast,    jnade 
nvar  up'm  the   Parthians,  ivho 
were  ?iorj  attemptirig   to    sally 
out ;  which  soon  after  he  mati- 
aged   successfully,    and    made 
havoc  of  the  Persia?is  in  great 
battles.      Upon    his   returii    ht 
was  slain  not  far  fro  m  theRo- 
man  borders,  by  the   treachery 
of  Philip,    who  reigned  after 
him.       The    soldiers    built    a 
monument  for   hitn,    20   miles 
from  Circessum,  which  is  now 
a    cattle  of  the   Romans,  close 
by  the   Euphrates,  carried  his 
relics     to    Rome,    and    dec  la* 
red  him  a  god. 


3.  The  two  Philips,  father 
and  son,  after  Gordian  Avas 
slain,  seized  the  government, 
and  having  brought  off  the  ar- 
my   safe,     went   from     Syria 


f  The  god  Janus  had  two  faces  loolcin;r  rouLrary  ways,  whence  \r 
•s  <  ailed  Gcm'nus  ;  his  temple  was  always  op<^ii  iu  time  of  v.ar  imt 
fcliut  in  lime  of  |;eace. 


'  .v»i--.v«Om.  A«j 


Bfe^iaftinaataLAia 


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LIBEIl    IX. 


Syria  profecti  sunt.  His 
imperanlibus,  millesimiis 
annus  Romac  uibis  in 
genti  ludorum  apparatu 
spectaculorumque  cele- 
bratus  est.  Ambo  inde 
ab  exercitu  interfecli 
sunt :  senior  Philippus 
VeronsB,  Romae  junior. 
Annis  v.  imperaverunt, 
inter  Divos  tamen  relati 
sunt. 

4,  Post  hos  Decius  e 
Pannonia  inferiore,  Bu- 
balisc  natus,  imperium 
sumpsit.  Bellum  civile, 
quod  in  Gallia  motum 
fuerat,  oppressit,  filium 
suum  Cassarem  fecit.  Ro- 
nix  lavacrum  sdificavit, 
Cunn  biennio  ipse  et  filius 
ejus  imperassent,  uter- 
que  in  Barbarico  inter- 
fecti  sunt,  et  inter  Divos 
relati. 

5.  Mox  Imperatores 
creali  sunt,  Gallus  Hos- 
tilianus,  et  (;alli  filius 
Volusianus.  Sub  his 
iEmilianus  in  Mxsia  res 
novas  molitus  est  :  ad 
quern  opprimendum  cum 
ambo  profecti  essent,  In- 
tcramnx  interfecti  sunt, 
non  completo  biennio ; 
nihil  omninoclarum  ges- 
serunt.  Solapestilentia  et 


for  Italy,  In  their  reigrtj  the 
thousandth  year  of  (he  city 
Rome  ivaa  celebrated  iv;th  a 
vast  ajifiaratus  of  games  and 
shows.  After  thaty  both  of 
them  were  slain  by  the  army  ; 
the  elder  Philip  at  *  Verona^ 
and  the  younger  at  Rome, 
They  reigned  five  years  ;  hoxt)- 
ever  they  were  placed  amongst 
the  gods, 

4.  After  them  Decius  of 
Lower  f  Pannonia,  bom  at  Bu- 
balia,  took  upon  him  the  govern- 
ment.  He  suppressed  a  civil 
war^  which  had  been  raised  in 
Gaid  and  made  his  son  Casar, 
He  built  a  bagnio  at  Rome, 
After  he  and  his  son  had  reign- 
ed two  years,  both  of  them  were 
slain  in  the  Barbarians  country^ 
and  ranked  amongst  the  Divi. 


5.  Immediately  Gallus  Hos- 
tilianus,  and  Gallus*  son  Volu- 
sianus were  made  JLmperors, 
Under  them  JEmilian  in  Alasia 
attempted  a  revolution  ;  to  sup» 
press  whom,  as  they  were  both 
marching,  they  were  slain  at 
\Interamna,  two  years  being 
not  quite  up  ;  they  did  nothing 
at  all  considerable.  Their  p-o- 
vernment  was  only  noted  for 
the  plague,   and   diseases  and 


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*  A  town  in  the  north  parts  of    Italv,  now  subject  to  the  Vene- 
tians. 

t  Pannonia  was  in  a  great  nieasnre  tlie  same  countrv,  that  is  now 
eetlled  Hungary. 

;  A  city  of  I'ui'oria,  nisb  the  ri\  ©r  Nai*. 


morbis  atque  aegritudini- 
bus  notus  eorum  princi- 
patus  fuit. 

6.  ^milianus  obscuris- 
sime  naius,  obscurius 
imperavit :  ac  tei  lio  mcn- 
se  exlinctus  est. 

7.  Hinc  Licinius  Vale- 
rianus  in  Rhxtia  et  Nori- 
co  agens,  ab  exercitu 
Imperator,  et  mox  Au- 
gustus, est  factus.  Gal- 
lienus  quoque  Romx  a 
Senatu  Cxsar  est  appel- 
htus.  Horum  imperium 
Romano  nomini  pernici- 
osum,  et  pene  exitiabile 
fuit,  vel  infelicitate  prin- 
cipum,  vel  ignavia.  Ger- 
niani  Ravennam  usque 
venerunt.  Valerianus  in 
Mesopotamia  bellum  ge- 
rens,  a  Sapore  Persarum 
rege  superatus  est  :  mox 
cliam  captus  apud  Par- 
Ihos,  ignobili  servitute 
consenuit. 

8.  Gallienus,  cum  a- 
dolescens  factus  esset 
Augustus,  imperium 
piimum  feliciter,  mox 
commode,  ad  ultimum 
perniciose  gessit.  Nam 
j'ueius  in  Gallia  Sc  Illy- 
rico  mult-i  strenue  fecit 
occiso  a»)ud  Mursiam  In- 
genuo,  qui  purpuram 
sumpscrcii,  Treb-jlliano. 
Diu  placid  us  et  quielusi 


sicknesses. 


6.  jEmiliaTius  was  very  ob- 
scurely descended,  and  reigjicd 
more  obscurely,  and  was  taken 
off  in  the  third  month, 

7.  After  him  Licinius  Vale- 
rianus, who  was  then  in  Rhce- 
t:a  and  JVoricu7n,  was  made 
their  General  by  the  army 
there,  a?id soon  ajter  Emperor» 
Gallienus  too  was  proclaimed, 
Cxsar  by  the  Senate  at  Rome, 
Their  reign  was  very  mischie- 
vous, and  almost  ruinous  to  the 
Roman  name,  either  through 
the  ill  fortune  or  inactivity  of 
these  princes.  The  Germans 
came  as  far  as  Ravenna,  Va- 
lerianus, as  he  'was  carrying 
on  a  war  in  Mesopotamia,  was 
overthrown  by  Sapores,  King 
of  the  Pcrsia7is,  and,  soon  after 
too,  taken,  lived  to  be  old  in 
ignominious  slavery  amoiigst 
the  Parthians, 

8.  GallicTius  being  made 
F.7npcror  very  young,  managed 
the  government  at  first  success- 
fully, aJter wards  but  indiffer- 
ently, at  last  perniciously.  For 
when  but  a  your.g  man,  he  per ^ 

formed  many  things  gallantly  in 
Gaul  and  Illyricum,  killiiig  In* 
geniiu.'i  ct  Mursia*  who  had  ta^ 
ke7i  upon  him  the  scarlet,  and 
TrebelUunus  too.  He  was  for 
a  good  while  gentle  and  moderate 


*  That  is,  set  up  for  the  Emperor,  who  was  disiingaishod  I)y  a  fine 
«cai  let  robe. 

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et  quietus  :  mox  in  om- 
nem  lasciviamdissolutus, 
tenendse  rcipublicie  habe- 
nas  probosa  iijnavia  et 
desperatione  rclaxavit. 
Alamarnii  vastatis  Gal- 
liis  in  Italiam  inuperunt. 
Dacia,  tjnx  a  Trajano 
ultra  Danubium  fuerat 
adjccla,  amissa  est. 
Grsccia,  Macedonia,  Pon- 
tus,  Asia  vastalu:  per 
Goihos.  Pannonia  a  Sar- 
matis  Quadisfjue  popula- 
ta  est.  Germani  usque 
ad  Hispanias  penetrave- 
3unt,  et  civitatem  nobi- 
lem  Tarraconein  expug- 
iiaveiunt.  Partlii,  Me- 
sopotamia occupata,  Sy- 
riam  sibi  coeperunt  vindi- 
care. 

9  Turn  jam  desperatis 
rebus,  et  delete  pene  im- 
perio  Romano,  Posthu- 
mus  in  Gallia,  obscu^issi- 
menatus,pu^pu^amsul«p- 
liit:  et  per  annos  decern 
ita  imperavit,  ut  con- 
bumptas  pene  provincias 
ingenti  virlute  et  modera- 
tione  leparaverit:  qui 
sediiione  miiitum  inter- 
fectus  est,  quod  Mogun- 
tiacum  qux  adversiim 
cum  rebcllaverat,  Lolli- 
ano  res  novas  moliente, 
diripiendum,  militibus 
tradtre  noiuisset.  Post 
cum  Marius,  vilissimus 
opifex,  purpuram  accc- 
pit,  et  secundo  die  inter- 


in  his  government.  Soon  af- 
ter being  given  u/i  to  all  man- 
ner of  iasciviousness^  he  slack' 
ened  the  rein»  of  governvieiit  by 
a  scandalous  inactivity  and 
want  ef  spirit.  The  ^ilamannt 
laying  ivaatc  Gaiil^  broke  into  /- 
taly,  Dacia^  nvhich  had  been 
added  {o  the  limpire  by  Tra- 
jan  beyond  the  Danube,  ivas 
lost,  Greece,  Macedonia,  Pon- 
tua  and  jlsia  roere  laid  vcaste 
by  the  Goths.  Pannonia  was 
ravaged  by  the  ^'cirtnatians  and 
the  Quadiana.  Tlit  Germans 
penetrated  as  Jar  as  Sj.ain, 
and  took  the  noble  city  of  Jar- 
racon.  The  Parthinnts  scizinrr 
Alesopotutniai  began  to  claim 
Hyria  to  themselves. 


9,  JSLittcrs  being  non<  despe- 
rate, and  the  Pom  an   Pmpire 
".veil   nigh  ruined,  Postliumus 
in  Gaul,  very  meanly  descend- 
ed, took  upon  him  the  scarlet, 
and  reigned  Jor  te?i  years   so, 
that  he  recovered  /he provinces, 
almost    ruined,    by    his  great 
co7uiuct  and  inoderatioii ;  ivho 
Tjas  slain  in  a  mutiny   of  the 
soldiers,    because  he  ivould  ?iot 
deliver  up    to    the  soldiers   to 
be   plundercdy     A/oguntiacuiu, 
ivhuh      had    rebelled    againsr 
him,  when   Lollianus  vjas  en- 
dccvouring  a  change  of  gov  em- 
rient,     jiftcr    him   Marine,  a 
sordid  mechayiiCf  took  the  scar- 
let  upon    him,  and  rjas  slain 
the  iccond  day    after.      I'ictO' 


LIBER  IX. 


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fectus  est.  Victorinus 
pobtca  Gain  arum  accepit 
imperium,  vir  strenuissi- 
mus:  sedcum  nimix  libi- 
dinis  esset,  8c  matrimo- 
nia  aliena  corrumperet, 
Agrippina;  occisus  est, 
actuario  quodam  machi- 
nante  dolum,  imperii  sui 
anno  secundo. 

10.  Huic  successit  Te- 
tricus  Senator,  qui  Aqui- 
taniam  honore  prxsidis 
administrans,  absens  a 
militibus  Imperator  elec- 
tu3  est,  &  apud  Burde- 
galam  purpuram  sump- 
sit  ;  seditiones  raultas 
miiitum  pertulit.Seddum 
hxc  in  Gallia  geruntur,  in 
Oriente  per  Odenatum 
Persx  Yicti  sunt ;  defensa 
Syria,  recepta  Mesopo- 
tamia, usque  ad  Cleei- 
phontem  Odenaius  penc- 
iravit. 

11.  Ita  Gallieno  Rem- 
publicam  deserente  Ko- 
n^anum  imperium  in  Oc- 
cidente  per  Posthunium, 
per  Odenalum  in  Orienle 
servatum  est.  Gallienus 
interea  Mediolani  cum 
fratre  Valcriano  occisus 
est,  imperii  anno  nono  : 
Cla\idiusque  ei  successit, 


rinus  afterwards  received  the 
g over n7nent  of  Gaul,  averyac- 
tive  man  ;  but  as  he  ivas  a  per- 
son of  excessive  lust,  and  de- 
bauched other  people's  tviveSy 
he  ivas  slai?i  at  *jigripfiina^  a 
certain  Secretary  of  his  con- 
triving  the  plot,  in  the  second 
year  of  his  reign, 

10.  Tetricus,  a  Senator y 
succeeded  himy  ivho  governing 
jiquitain  in  (juality  of  Presto 
dent,  was  elected  Emperor  in 
his  absence  by  the  soldiers,  and 
took  upon  him  the  scarlet  ai 
\Burdegala  ;  he  met  with  ma- 
ny seditions  of  the  soldiers» 
But  whilst  these  things  are  do- 
ing in  Gaul,  the  Persians  were 
conquered  in  the  East,  by  0- 
denatus  :  Syria  being  defend- 
ed, and  Mesopotamia  being  re^ 
covered,  Odenctus  penetra':ed 
as  far  as  Cteiifhon, 

11.  Thus  Gallienus  desert' 
:y]g  the  government,  the  Po- 
man  Empire  was  preserved  in 
the  JVest  by  Pcsthuwus,  and  in 
the  East  by  Odtnafus.  Gallie- 
nus in  the  mean  time  was  slain 
at  \  Medio  la  nu7j?,  with  his  bro- 
ther Valtiiaii,  in  the  9th  year 
of  his  reign ;  and  Claudius 
succeeded  him,  being  chosen  by 


■^  A  townupc!!  t)io  Ilhinc,  now  Cologne, 
f  la  Aquilania,  now   i3ordeanv. 

l  A  capital  city  of  the  Galli  lu'^ubies,  on  tl  cnoith  side  of  the  ri\er 
Fo;  iti  Italy. 


iv»,.  '■■nMSi^i-  JM-»«'tt'Mi!»giMhvaej&g<s««TNaaiafe» 


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a  militibus  cleclus,  a  Sc- 
natu  appellaius  Augus- 
tus, liic  Gothos,  Illyri- 
cum,  Macedjniamque 
vastantcs,  ingenti  pr.xlio 
vicit ;  parous  vir  ac  mo- 
destus,  &  justi  tenax,  at- 
que  reipubiicK;  gerendx  i- 
doneys  :  qui  tamen  inter 
bicnrjium  imperii  raorbo 
inu;riit,  &  Divus  appella- 
t\ij  est.  Senutus  ingenti 
cum  honore  decoravit, 
scilicet  ut  in  curia  clype- 
us  ipsi  aureus,  item  in 
capitolio  statua  aurea 
poneretur. 

12.  Quintillus  post 
eum,  Claudii  frater,  con- 
sensu militum  Inipeiatoi* 
electus  est :  vir  unica 
moderalionis  8c  civiJitatis 
Imde  squandus  fratri  vel 
pracponendus,  consensu 
Senatus  appellatus  Au- 
gustus :  septimo  deci- 
mo  die  imperii  occisus 
est. 

13.  Fost  cum  Aurcli- 
anus  suscepit  imperium, 
J)acia  Ripensi  oriundus  ; 
▼ir  in  belle  potens,  ani- 
ini  tamen  immodici,  Sc 
ad  crudclitatem  propensi- 
oris;*  quique  Gothos 
strenuissime  vicit,  Ro- 
manam  deditionem  ad  fi- 
nes pristinos  varia  beiio- 


i/ie  soldiers^  and  declared  Em- 
peror by  the  Seriate,  He  over- 
threw in  a  great  battle^  the 
Gothsj  ivasting  Illyricum  and 
Macedonia ;  bei?ig  a  frugal 
and  modest  man^  and  tenacious 
of  justice,  and  ft  to  govern  the 
limfiire  ;  ivho  died  hoivever  of 
a  distem/iery  ivithin  tivo  years 
oj  his  reign,  and  ivas  declared 
a  Semigod.  The  Senate  gra- 
ced him  "d'itk  a  mighty  honor ^ 
so  that  a  *  golden  shield  was  set 
ufi  for  him  in  the  Senate  horn c^ 
aiid  a  gulden  statue  in  the  Cu- 
iutoU 

12.  Qidntilius  the  brother  of 
Claudius  was  elected  Emfieror 
after  him  by  the  agreement  of 
the  soldiers  ;  a  man  to  be  equal- 
led to,  or  fireferred  before  his 
brother,  for  the  extraordinary 
character  of  his  moderation  and 
modesty,  being  declared  too 
Emfieror  by  the  consent  of  the 
Senate  ;  he  was  slain  in  the  1 7lh 
day  of  his  reign. 

1 3«  lifter  him  Aurelian  un- 
dertook the  government^  born 
in  Dacia  Ripensis ;  a  nupi 
fiQVjerful  in  war^  yet  of  a  vio- 
lent temfier,  and  too  inclinable 
to  cruelty ;  who  likewise  most 
valiantly  beat  the  Goth's,  and 
extended  the  Roman  Emfiire  to 
i'.'i  former  limits  by  various 
good  fortune  in  his  war^.     Jig 


*  Those  that  please  may  see  the  subject  of  these  sorts  of  fcliieldi^ 
fully  cliscasjjodin  the  Memoirs  ot'th*j  Academic  Ues  Insrription'^  *c  U- 
Uelles  Ivjtfers. 


LIBER  IX. 


149 


rum  felicitate  revocavit : 
superavit  in  Galia  Tetri- 
cum  apudCatalaunoSjipso 
Te!r*«co  prodente  exerci 
turn  suum ;  cujus  assiduas 
seditiones  ferre  non  pote- 
rat:  quineliam  per  literas 
occultas  Aurelianum  ita 
fuerat  deprecatus,ut  inter 
alii  versu  Virgiliano  ute- 
TQiuViEri/ie  me  his,  invictCy 
malis,  Zenobiam  quoque, 
occiso  marito  Odenato,qui 
Orientem  tcnebat,  baud 
longe  ab  Antiochia,  non 
sine  gravi  prrelio,  cepit ; 
ingressusque  Romam,nc- 
bilem  tiiumphum  quasi 
receptor  Orieniis  Occi- 
deniii  qtieegil;  currum 
prxcedcntibus  Tetrico  Sc 
Zenobia:  qui  quidem  Te- 
tricus  etiam  corrector 
Lucania;  postea  fuit,  ac 
privalus  diulis>ime  vixit. 
Zenol)ia  autem  posleros, 
qui  adhuc  manent  Romi:, 
reliquit. 

14.  Hoc  imperante  e- 
li'An\  Monctarii  in  urbe 
rebellavcrunt,  vitiaiis  pe- 
cuniis,  5c  Felicissimo  ra- 
tionali  inlerfecto :  quos 
Aurelianus  victos  ultima 
crudeliiate  compescuit. 
Phuimos  nobiles  capilc 
damnavit:  sicvu3  Sc  san- 
guiuarius,  ac  necessarius 


defeated  letricus  in  Gaul  a- 
movgst  the  CatalauniaJis,  Te- 
tricus  himself  betraying  his  ar- 
my^ the  continual  mutinies  of 
which  he  was  not  able  to  bear  ; 
he  had  too  by  private  letters  en» 
treated  Jurelian  to  come,  so 
that  amongother  things  he  made 
use  of  a  verse  of  Virgil's,  Re- 
lieve me,  mighty  Sir,  in  this 
distress.  He  took  Zenobia  too^ 
after  he  had  slain  her  husband 
Odenatus,  who  had  fiossession 
of  the  East,  not  far  from  An- 
tioch  *not  without  a  terrible 
battle ;  find  entering  Rome^ 
had  a  noble  triumfih^  as  the  re- 
covercr  of  the  East  and  the 
West;  Tetricns  and  Zenobia 
going  before  his  coach  ;  which 
Tetricus  too  was  after^varda 
Governor  of  Eucaniuy  and 
lived  divested  of  the  Eni' 
pire  a  long  time»  jIjuI  Zenobia 
left  posttritu^  which  continue 
still  at  Rcmc» 


14.  In  his  reign  the  gentle- 
men cf  the  mint  too  rebelled  in 
the  city,  having  adulterated 
the  coin,  and  killing  Eelicissi- 
?niis  the  auditor  of  the  exche- 
quer ;  whom  Aurelian  conquer' 
ed  and  suppressed  with  the  ut- 
most cruelty.  He  coiidemned 
several  noblemen  to  death  ;  a 
cruel  and  a  bloody  man,    and 


*  It  u'as  but  a  skirmish  he  had  with  hor  near  Aiitlorh;  the  b:\ttle 
that  dttermiiiel  the  fate  of  Zenobia  was  fooght  near  Et-^essa,  far  frem 
Aiiticoli. 

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magis  in  quibusdam, 
quam  in  ullo  amabilis 
Imperator;  trux  omni 
tempore,  etiam  filii  soro- 
ris  interfector:  disciplinx 
lamen  militari»  &  morum 
clissolutorum  magna  ex 
parte  corrector. 

15.  Urbem  Romam 
TTiuris  firmioribus  cinxit ; 
tcmplum  Soli  scdificavit, 
in  quo  infinitum  auri 
i;emmarumque  consti- 
tuit.  Provinciam  Daciam, 
quam  Trajanus  ultra 
Oanubium  fccerat,  inter- 
misit,  vastato  omni  Illy- 
rico  £c  Mcssia,  desperans 
earn  posse  rctineri :  ab- 
ductosque  Romanos  ex 
urbibus  &  agris  Daciar  in 
media  Aloesia  coUocavit : 
Sc  est  in  dcxtera  Danubio 
in  mare  fluenti,  cum  an- 
rea  fuerit  in  Ixva.  Occi- 
ditur  servi  sui  fraudc,  qui 
ad  quosdam  miliiares  vi- 
vos, amicos  ipsius  nomi- 
napertulit  annotata,falso 
manum  ejus  imitatus? 
tanquam  Aurelianus  ip- 
sos  pararet  occidere. 
Ilaque  ut  praeveniretur 
ab  iisdem,  interfccUis  est 
in  iiineris  medio,  quod 
inter  Constantinopolin  8c 
Heraclcam  esc  stralcs  ve- 
ieris,locusC:cnophrui  ium 
appellatur  :  mors  tamen 
ejus  inuha  non  fuit.  Me- 
ruit quoque  inter  Divos 
refeiri.     Imperavit     an- 


a  fiecessary  in  some  res/ieciSj 
rather  than  an  amiable  Rmper' 
or  in  any ;  severe  in  all  his 
time,  the  murderer  too  oj  his 
sister'n  son  ;  however  in  a  great 
measure  a  reformer  of  military 
disciftline  and  dissolute  vian^ 
ners, 

15.  He  surrounded  the  city 
Rome  with  stronger  walls  ;  he 
built  a  temple  to  the  sun^  in 
which  he  deposited  an  infinite 
quantity  of  gold  and  jewels. 
He  threw  up,  the  province  of 
Dacia^  which  Trajan  had 
made  beyond  the  Danube ;  all 
lilyricum  and  Mcesia  having 
been  ravaged  by  the  Barba- 
rians, despair i}ig  that  it  could 
be  retained;  and  planted  the 
Romans,  wliom  he  had  drawn 
from  the  cities  and  lands  of 
Dacia,  in  the  middle  of  Ma- 
sia;  and  so  Dacia  is  in  effect 
072  the  right  of  the  Danube^  as 
it  runs  to  the  sea^  whereas  be- 
fore it  was  on  the  left.  He  wai 
slain  by  the  treachery  of  a 
slave  of  hia,  who  carried  their 
names  to  some  military  men, 
his f7'iej:ds,  put  down  in  a  poc- 
ket book,  having  falsely  imi- 
tated his  hand,  as  though  ylu" 
relian  was  mi7idcd  to  kill  them. 
Therefore,  that  he  might  be  pre- 
vented by  them,  he  was  slain  in 
the  middle  of  the  road,  which 
is  betwixt  Constant i?iople  ana 
Heracleuj  beijig  the  old  causey  ; 
the  place  is  called  CcenophrU" 
riu?n.  Yet  his  death  was  no' 
wirsvcnged.  He  too  deservedly 


LIBER  IX. 


151 


iios  V.  menses  vi. 


16.  Tacitus  post  hunc 
suscepit  imperium,  vir 
egregie  moratus,  &  rei- 
publicx  gerenda  idoneus; 
nihil  tamen  clarum  potuit 
ostendere,  intra  vi.  men- 
sem imperii  morte  prac- 
ventus.  Florianus,  qui 
Tacito  successerat,  duo- 
bus  mensibus,  &  diebus 
XX.  in  imperio  fuit,  ne- 
que  quidquam  dignum 
mcmoria  egit. 

17.  Post  hunc  Probus, 
vir  illustris  gloria  milita- 
ri,  ad  administralionem 
rcipublicae  accessit.  Gal- 
lias  a  Barbaris  occupatas 
ingenti  pracliorum  felici- 
tate restiiuit.  Quosdam 
imperium  usurpare  co- 
natos,  scilicet  Saturni- 
num  in  Oriente,  Procu- 
lum  et  Bonosum  Agrip- 
pinx,  mullis  certamini- 
bus  oppressit.  Vineas 
GaUos  et  Pannonios  ha- 
bere permisit :  oper<i  mi- 
litari  Almam  montem  a- 
pud  Sirmium,  et  Aureum 
apud  Mcesiam  supeiio- 
rem,  vineis  consuevit,  et 
provincialibus  colendos 
dedit.  Hie  cumbclla  in- 
numera    gessiaset,    pace 


was  enrolled  amongst  the  Divi, 
He  reignedfive  years  and  six 
months» 

1 6.  Jfter  him  Tacitus  took 
upon  him  the  government ;  a 
man  of  most  excellent  morals^ 
and  fit  to  govern  the  Umpire  ; 
yet  he  could  not  shew  the  world 
any  thing  remarkable,  being 
prevented  by  death,  within  the 
6th  month  of  his  reign.  FlO'- 
rianus,  who  succeeded  Tacitusy 
was  in  the  government  bni  two 
months  and  2Q  days,  nor  did 
he  do  any  i/iing  worth  mention- 
ing. 

17.  4fter  him  *  Probus,  a 
man  illustrious  for  military 
gl'jry,  came  to  the  government 
of  the  Empire,  He  recovered 
Gaul,  that  had  been  seized  by 
the  Barbarians,  with  mighty 
success  in  his  battles.  He  llke- 
wise  cjuelled  in  many  battles 
some  that  endeavoured  to  usurp 
the  Empire,  to  wit,  Saturni- 
?ius  in  the  East,  Proculus  and 
Bonosus  at  Jgrippina.  He 
suffered  the  Gauls  and  Fanno- 
nians  to  have  vineyards:  he 
likewise  planted  with  vines,  by 
the  means  cf  his  soldiers^  mount 
Atr.ia  at  Sirmium,  and  mount 
Aureus  in  upher  Algesia,  and 
gave  them  to  the  provincials  to 
cultivate.  He,  after  he  had 
run  through  many  wars,  accom» 
pushing  at   last  a  peace,  saidy 


*  lie  had  been  choren  Emr-vor  in  t!'.e  r4vt.  a  littic  before  Floria- 


nv.-y'  ucain. 


LIBER  IX. 


1  fc' » 


152 


EUTaIOPII 


parta,  dixit,  brcvi  milites 
iiecessai  ios  non  futures  ; 
viracer  ac  strenuus,  Jus- 
tus, et  qui  AureliaiHim  x- 
quaret  gloria  militari, 
morum  tamen  civilitate 
superaret.  Inlerfectus  est 
tamen  Sirmii,  tumuitu 
militari,  in  lurre  ferrata. 
Imperavit  annos  sex 
menses  quatuor. 

18.    Post  hunc   Carus 

est  factus  Augustus,  Nar- 

bonrc  natus  in  Gallia,  qui 

confestim   Carinuni      et 

Numerianum    filios   Cs- 

sares  fecit,    f.uni  quibus 

regnavit   duobus    annis  : 

«ed  dum  belluni    adver- 

sum  Sarma*. as  gerit,  nun- 

tiato  Persiii'um  tumullu, 

ad    Orien'em    profectus, 

ves  cont:  1  Persas  nobiles 

gcssit;  jpsns  prjclio  fudit: 

Seleuciam  et  Ctesiphon- 

lemiirbesnobilis'simasce- 

pit:  Sc  ciin\  castra  supra 

ri.c^rifhm    habtrct,    ictu 

divini      fulminis     periit. 

Numerianus  quocpie  fili- 

us  ejus,  (piem  secum  ad 

Persas   duxerat,    adoles- 

cens     es^regiie      indolis, 

cum     oculorum     dolore 

correptus,    lecticula   ve- 

htretur,  impidsorc  Apro, 

qui   socer  ejus  erat,  per 

insidias   occisus   est;    et 


that  in  a  short  time  soldiers 
nvould  not  be  necessary  ;  a  vi^ 
gorous  and  an  active  man^just^ 
and  one  nvho  equalled  ^iirelian 
in  military  glory^  but  exceeded 
him  in  the  moderation  of  his 
conduct»  Yet  he  ivas  slain  at 
*Sirmiian  in  a  mutiny  of  the 
soldiers  i?i  an  iron  turret.  He 
reigned  §  years  and  4  months, 

18.  After  him  Carus  was 
made  Emfieror^  born  at  ^JVar' 
bona  in  Gaul,  who  immediately 
made  his  sous  Carinus  and  A'if- 
merianus  Casars^  with  whom 
he  reigned  two  years.  But 
news  being  brought  oj  the  Per- 
sians  beifig  in  arms,  whilst  he 
was  carrying  on  a  war  against 
the  SarmutianSy  marching  to 
the  East,  he  performed  noble 
ex/doits  against  the  Persians  ; 
routed  them  in  battle,  took  the 
most  nobh  cities  of  Seleucia 
and  Ctesijihon  ;  and  whilst  he 
had  his  cam/i  ufion  tlie  Tigris, 
perished  of  a  stroke  of  the  di' 
vine  thunder,  Aamerianus  too, 
his  sofi,  whom  he  had  curried 
along  with  him  against  the  Per- 
sians,  a  young  man  of  an  ex» 
traordinnry  genius,  being  tak- 
en wiih  a  weakness  in  his  eyfs, 
and  carried  in  a  chair,  was 
taken  off"  by  a  plot,  Aper,  wtio 
was  his  father-in-law,  being 
the  promoter  of  it ;  and  as  his^ 


*  Atouriof  Pannonia. 

t  Narboiia  was  a  town  of  Ilij-ricuin,  »U)t  Oaul :  Nni  bo  was  ruun'n^ 
in  our  authvji'jihrai,  v.hichi!;  u»  Francv;  no.v  N'arboii. 


cum  dolo  occultareiur 
ipsius  mors,  quo  usque 
Aper  invade  re  posset  im- 
perium,  foetore  cadavciis 
prodita  est.  Milites  c- 
nim,  qui  eum  sequeban- 
tur,  foetore  commoti,  di- 
ductis  lecticulr:  palliis 
post  aliquot  dies  mortem 
ejus  notam  habere  potue- 
lunt. 

19.  Interea    Carinus, 
quern  Cx.arem  in   Par- 
thos    proticiscens  Carus, 
in  Illvrico,  Gallia,  Italia, 
reliquerat,     omnibus    se 
sceleribus    coinquinavit : 
plurimos   innoxios    ficlis 
criminibus  occidit:  mat- 
rlmonia  nobilia  corrupit : 
condiscipulis  quoque,  qui 
eum  in  auditorio  vel  levi 
fatigatione       taxaverant, 
|>erniciosus  fuit.    Ob  qux 
omnibus  hominibus  invi- 
sus,non  multo  post  poenas 
dedit.     Nam  dc  Perside 
victa    exercitus  rediens, 
cum   Carum  Augustum 
fulmine,      Numerianum 
Cxsarem    insidiis    perdi- 
disset,  Dioclctianum  Im- 
peratorem   creavit,    Dal- 
matia  oriundum,    virum 
obscurissimc    natum,    a- 
deo  ut  a  plerisque  scrib» 
illius,  a  nonnullis  Anuli- 
ni  Senatoris  libertinus  fu- 
isse  credatur. 

20.  Is  prima  militum 
concione  juravit,  Nume- 
vianum  nulla  suo  dole  in- 


deat.h  was  concealed  out  of  po- 
licy, till  Aper  could  seize  the 
governments  it  was  betrayed  by 
the  stink  of  his  carcase.  For 
the  soldiers  who  attended  hirn, 
being  surpn&ed  at  the  bad ^ 
smell,  drawing  the  curtains  of 
his  chair  after  same  daysj  dis» 
covered  his  death. 


19.  In  the  mean    time,   Ca- 
rinus, whom  Carus  upon   his 
going  against  the  Parilunns  had 
idPtCx'iar  in  Illijricum.Gaul  and 
lialy,    debased  himr<cf  by   all 
7nanner    of  aboviina^ions  ;  put 
to  death  a  great  maiiy  innjccnt 
persons,    upon  forgi^d  accusa- 
tions; debauched  several  noble^ 
men* 3  wives.     Ke  was  lik'iwise 
the    ruin    of   several    of   his 
quondam  school  fellows,  who  at 
school  had  provoked  him  by  any 
slight  banter  ;  for  which  being 
odious  to  all  men,  not  hng  after 
he  met  with  deserved  punish- 
ment.      For  the  army  return'^ 
ing  from  the  conquest  of  Per- 
sia, having  lost  their  Emperor 
Carus  by  thunder,    and  Casar 
JVumerian  by  a  /dot,  made  Dio- 
clesian    Emperor,  a  native  of 
Dabnatia,  obscurely  elescendedy 
so  that  he  is  believed  by  most  to 
have  been  the  son  of  a  Secretaryy 
and  by  some  a  freed  maji  of  A- 
nulinus  the  Senator» 

20.  In  the  first  assembly  of 
the  army,  he  swore  that  JVu- 
merian was  not  slain  by  any; 


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153 


152 


EUTROPII 


parta,  dixit,  brevi  milites 
necessaries  non  futures ; 
viracer  ac  strenuus,  Jus- 
tus, et  qui  Aurelianum  x- 
quaret  gloria  militari, 
morum  tamen  civilitale 
superaret.  Interfectus  est 
tamen  Sirmii,  tumultu 
militari,  in  turre  ferrata. 
Imperavit  annos  sex 
menses  quatuor. 

18.    Post  hunc   Carus 
est  factuB  Augustus,  Nar- 
bon?e  natus  in  Gallia,  qui 
confeslim   Carinum      et 
Numerianum    filios   Cae- 
sares  fecit,    cum  quibus 
regnavit   duobus    annis : 
sed  dum  bellum    adver- 
sum  Sarmatas  gerit,nun- 
tiato  Persarum  tumuUu, 
ad    Orientem    profcclus, 
ves  contra  Persas  nobiles 
gessit:  ipsos  prxlio  fudit: 
Scleuciam  et  Ctesiphon- 
lem  nrbes  nobilissimas  ce- 
pit:  Sc  cum  castra  supra 
Tigridcm    haberct,    ictu 
divini      fulminis     periit. 
Numerianus  quoque  fili- 
us  ejus,  quem  secum  ad 
Persas   duxerat,    adoles- 
cens     egregi«e      indolis, 
cum     oculorum     dolore 
correptus,    lecticula    ve- 
heretur,  impidsorc  Apro, 
qui   socer  ejus  erat,  per 
insjdias   occisus   est;    et 


that  in  a  short  time  soldiers 
would  not  be  necessary  ;  a  vi» 
gorous  and  an  active  man^juat^ 
and  one  ivho  equalled  Aiirelian 
in  military  glory y  but  exceeded 
him  in  the  moderation  of  his 
conduct.  Yet  he  was  slain  at 
*Sirmium  in  a  mutiny  of  the 
soldiers  in  an  iron  turret.  He 
reigned  §  years  and  4  months, 

18.     After  him  Carus  was 
made  Emfieror^  born  at  fAar- 
bona  in  Gauly  who  immediately 
made  his  sotis  Carinus  and  A'lr- 
merianus  Casars^    with  whom 
he    reigned    two  years.     But 
news  being  brought  oj  the  Per- 
sians  being  in  arms^  whilst   he 
was  carrying  on  a  war  against 
the  Sarmatiana^    marching    to 
the  Eaaty  he  performed  noble 
ex/doits  against  the  Persians  ; 
routed  them  in  battle^  took  the 
most  noble   cities  of   Seleucia 
and  Ctesi/ihon  ;    and  whilst  he 
had  his  camfi  ufion  tlie   Tigris^ 
fierishcd  of  a  stroke  of  the  di' 
vine  thunder,  j\amerianus  too, 
his  Sony    whom  he  had  carried 
along  with  him  against  the  Per- 
sianSy  a  young  man  of  an  ex- 
traordinary geniusy  being  tak- 
en rcith  a  weakness  in  his  eyesj 
and  carried  in  a    chair^    was 
taken  off'  by  afiloty  A/ier^  who 
was   his  father-in-laWy    being 
the  iiromoter  of  it ;  and  as  his^ 


*  A  town  of  Pannonia. 

f  Narbona  was  a  town  of  Illyricujn,  HOt  Gaul :  Narbo  was  ruuni«sj 
in  our  author's  hrai,  which  iS  in  France,  now  Narboix. 


cum  dolo  occuUareiur 
ipsius  mors,  quo  usque 
Aper  invadere  posset  ini- 
perium,  foetore  cadaveiis 
prodita  est.  Milites  e^ 
nim,  qui  eum  sequeban- 
tur,  foetore  commoti,  di- 
ductis  lecticul»  palliis 
post  aliquot  dies  mortem 
ejus  noiam  habere  potuc- 

runt. 

19.    Interea    Carinus, 
quem  Cxsarem  in  Par- 
thos    proficiscens  Carus, 
in  Illyrico,  Gallia,  Italia, 
reliquerat,     omnibus    se 
sceleribus    coinquinavit : 
plurimos   innoxios    ficlis 
criminibus  occidit:  mat- 
rimonia  nobilia  corrupit : 
condiscipulis  quoque,  qui 
eum  in  auditorio  vel  levi 
fetigatione       taxaTerant, 
perniciosus  fuit.    Ob  qux 
omnibus  hominibus  invi- 
8U3,non  multo  post  pcenas 
dedit.     Nam  de  Perside 
victa    exercitus  rediens, 
cum  Carum  Augustum 
fulmine,      Numerianum 
Cxsarem   insidiis   perdi- 
disset,  Diocletianum  Im- 
peratorem  crearit,   Dal- 
matia  oriundum,    virum 
obscurissimc   natum,    a- 
deo  ut  a  plerisque  scribse 
filius,  a  nonnuUis  Anuli- 
niSenatoris  libertinusfu- 

isse  credatur. 

20.  Is  prima  militum 
concione  juravit,  Nurne- 
vianum  nullo  suo  dolo  in- 


death  was  concealed  out  of  po- 
licy, till  A}icr  could  seize  the 
govcrxment.  it  was  betrayed  by 
the  stink  of  his  carcase.     For 
the  soldiers  who  attended  hm,^ 
being    surprised    at    the    baa 
smell,  drawing  the  curtains  of 
his  chair  after  some  daysy  dis* 
covered  his  death. 


4 


19.  In  the  mean    time,  Ca- 
rinus, whom  Carus  upon   his 
going  against  the  Pcrthians  had 
UftCxsar  in  Illyricum,Gaul  and 
Laly,    debased  himself  by   clL 
manner    of  abomiriations  ;  put 
to  death  a  great  many  innocent 
persons,    upon  forged  accusa- 
tions; debauched  several  noble'' 
men's  wives.     He  was  likewise 
the    ruin    of   several    of   Ins 
quondam  schoolfellows,  who  at 
school  had  provoked  him  by  any 
slight  banter  ;  for  which  being 
odious  to  all  men,  not  hng  after 
he  met  with  deserved  pujnsh- 
ment.      For  the  army  return- 
ing from  the  conquest  of  Per- 
sia, having  lost  their  Emperor 
Carus  by  thunder,    and  Casar 
^'umer^an  by  a  plot,  made  Dio- 
clesian    Emperor,  a  native  of 
Dalmatia,  obscurely  descended^ 
80  that  he  is  believed  by  most  to 
have  been  the  soneja  Secretary^ 

and  by  some  a  freed  man  of  A^ 

nulinus  the  Senator» 

20.  In  the  first  assembly  of 
the  army,  he  swore  that  JVu- 
merian  was  not  slain  by  anif 


154 


EUTROPH 


LIBER  TX. 


155 


terieclum  :  Sc  cum  juxta 
cum  A  per,  qui  Numeri- 
ano  insidias  fecerat,  con- 
stitisset,  in  conspectu  ex- 
ercitus  manu  Diocletiani 
gladio  percussus  est.  Fos- 
lea  Carinum,  omniodio 
&detestuiionc  viventem  a- 
pudMargum  ingcnti  prac- 
lio  vicit,prodituni  abtzer- 
citu  suo,  quern  ibrtiorem 
habebal,  certe  deseriurn 
inter  Viminatium  atque 
Aureum  montum.  Iia 
rerum  Romanarum  poti- 
tus,  cum  lumullum  rusti- 
cani  in  Gallia  concitas- 
Bcnt,  k  faciioni  sux  Ba- 
gudaium  nomen  impone- 
rent,  duces  auiem  habe- 
rent  Amandum  Sc  ^lian- 
iim,  ad  subigendos  eos 
Maximianum  Herculium 
Caesarem  misit,  qui  Jevi- 
bus  prseliis  ap;restes  do- 
muit,  &  partem  Galli» 
relbrmavit. 

21.  Post  haec  terapora 
etiam  Carausius,  qui  vi- 
lississime  nat  us,in  slrenue 
militirc  ordins  famam  e- 
gregiam  fuerat  consecu- 
tus,  cum  apud  Bcnoniam 
per  t pactum  Belgiae  & 
Armoritae  pacandum 
mare    accepisset,     quod 


contrivance  of  his;  andaa^" 
peri  ^vfio  had  formed  the  plot 
against  JVumeriany  stood  by,  he 
ivaa  killed  u^ith  a  sword  by  the 
haJid  of  Diocletian^  in  the  sight 
of  the  army,  jifterwards  he 
deftated  in  a  great  battle  Cari» 
nus,  living  under  the  utmost 
hatred  and  detestatioHy  at 
^Margumy  betrayed  by  his  ar- 
my ^  which  he  had  stronger 
than  that  of  his  enemy,  how- 
ever deserted  by  them  betwixt 
Viminatium  and  mount  Aureus» 
Being  thus  master  of  the  Ro* 
man  jEwpdre^  the  peasants  in 
Gaul  halting  made  an  insurrec^ 
tiony  and  given  the  name  of  Ba^ 
guda  to  their  faction^  and  hav' 
ing  for  their  leaders  Jmandus 
and  Mliany  he  sent  Maximia^ 
nus  Herculius  Ceesar  to  reduce 
thenif  who  subdued  the  rustics, 
by  some  slight  battles^  and 
brought  apart  of  Gaul  into  order 
again, 

2 1.  ^i/ter  these  times  Carau- 
sius tooy  who  though  meanly 
borriy  had  got  a  mighty  name  in 
u  considerable  post  in  the  army y 
having  at  ^Bononia  received  a 
commission  to  hep  all  quiet  at 
seay  along  the  coast  of\Belgica 
Qnd,4rmoricayWhichth€\\Franka. 
andSaxaiisinfcstedJiavingofttn 


*  A  town  io  Mae^ia. 

+  A  town  of  Gallia  Cispadana,  not  far  from  the  Po. 

X  JBelgica  was  that  part  of  Gaul  which  lay  betwixt  the  Rhino,  tl:« 
Seine  and  the  ocean,  ami  Amorica  that  part  of  Caul  which  is  now  caU 
led  Britany. 

H  The  Franks  ami  Saxons  were  both  nations  of  Germany. 


Franci  k  Saxones  infesta- 
bant,  multis  Barbaris  sx- 
pe  captis,  nee  prscda  Inte- 
gra aut  provincialibusrcd- 
dita,  aut  Imperatoribus, 
missa  cum  suspicio  esse 
ccepisset  consullo  ab  eo 
admitti  Barbaros,  ut  tran- 
seuntes  cum  prxda  exci- 
peret,  atque  hac  se  occa- 
sione  ditaret,  a  Maximi- 
ano  jussus  occidi,  purpu- 
ram  sumpsit,  et  Britanni- 
as  occupavit. 

22.  Ita  cum  per  om- 
nem  orbem  terrarum  res 
turbatx  essent,  el  Carau- 
sius in  Briiannis  rebella- 
ret :  Achilleus  in  ^gyp- 
lo,  Africam  Quinque- 
gentiani  infeslarent,  Nar- 
seus  Orienli  bellum  in- 
ferret ;  Diocletianus 

Maximianum  Herculium 
ex  Caesare  fecit  Augus- 
lum,  Constantium  et 
Maximianum  Cxsarcs 
quorum  Constantius  per 
filiam  nepos  Claudii  ira- 
ditur ;  Maximianus  Gale- 
rius  in  Dacia  baud  longe 
Sardica  natus.  Atque 
ut  eos  eiiam  affinitatc 
conjungeret.  Constanti- 
us privignam  Heiculii 
Theodoram    accepit,    ex 


taken  many  of  the  Barbarians, 
but  not  returning  the  booty  en- 
tire    to    the  piovincialsy    nor 
sending   it  to   the  Emperors^ 
when  there  began  to  be  a  suspi- 
cion entertained  of  him^  that 
the  barbarians  were  purposely 
suffered  to  come   there  by  him^ 
that  he  might  snap  them  as  they 
passed  with    their  booty ^  and 
might  by  that  convenience  en» 
rich  himself y  being  ordered  by 
Maximian  to  be  dain^  he  took 
the     scarlet,    and   seized     on 
Britain. 

22.     Thus     whilst    matters 
were  in  great  disorder  through- 
out the  whole  world ^  and  Carau- 
sius was  raising  a  war  in  Bri» 
tain;  Jchilleus  in  Egypt ^  the 
*Quinguegentians       harrassed 
Jfrica  t  Mirseus     made    war 
upon  the  East^  Diocletian  made 
Maximianus  Herculius  of  Cx- 
sar,  Emperor,  Constantius  and 
Maximianus  Casars,  of  which 
\CoJistantiu8  is  said  to  have  been 
the  grandson  of  Claudius  by  a 
daughter;  Alaximianus   Gale- 
rius  to  have  been  bor?i  in  Da- 
cia,  not  far  from  Sardica,    ^Ind 
that  he  might  join  them  by  affi- 
nity  tooy  Con.Htantius    took  to 
wife  Theodora^  the  stefidaugh- 
tcr  of  Herculius y    by  whom   he 
had    afterwards    six  childrejt^ 
the    brothers   of  CovsforJine: 


*  These  were  the  inhabitants  of  Pentapolis  on  t!ie  west  of  Egypt. 

f  A  King  of  Armenia,  ,      r^  i 

+  He  was  the  grandson  of  Uic  Emperor  Claudius'  brotr.er  Crispus  Vy 


a  daughter. 


:^?s.",^-5?t^*"-?^r 


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EUTROPU 


qua  postea  sex  liberos 
Constaniini  fralres  habu- 
it:  Galeiiui  filiam  Diocle- 
tiani  Valeriam :  ambo 
uxores,quas  habuerant,re- 
pudiure  compulsi.  Cum 
Carausio  tamen,  cum 
bella  frustia  tentata  es- 
sent  contra  viruni  rei  mi- 
litari»  peritissimum,  ad 
postremum  pax  convenit. 
Eum  post  septennium  A- 
lectus  socius  ejus  occidtt, 
atque  ipse  post  eum  Bri- 
tannias  tritnnio  tenuit: 
qui  ductu  Asclepiodati 
Prajfecti  Praetorii  est  op- 
preasus.  Ita  Britannix 
decimo  anno  reccptsc. 

23.  Per  idem  tempus 
a  Constantio  Cxsare  in 
Gallia  pugnatum  estxirca 
Lin^ones:  die  una  ad- 
▼ersam  &  secundam  for- 
tunamexpertusest:  nam 
cum,  repente  Barbaris 
ingruentibus,  intra  civita- 
lem  esset  coactus  tam 
prxcipiti  necessitate,  ut 
clausis  portis  in  murum 
funibus  toUeretur;  vix 
quinque  horis  mediis  ad- 
ventante  exerciiu,  Ix. 
fere  mi  Ilia  Alamannorum 
cecidit.  Maximianus  quo- 
que  Aupjiistus  bellum  in 
Affica  profligavil,  domi- 
tis  Quinquegeniianis,  8c 
ad  pucem  rtdactis.  Di- 
oclelianus  obsessum  Al- 
exandrias  Achilleum  viii. 
fere      mense    superavit, 


Galerius  took  in  marriage  Tfl* 
leria  the  davghter  of  Diocle- 
tiariy  they  were  doth  obliged  to 
divGrce  the  wives  they  had  be- 
fore .  However  at  last  sin  ce  wa  r 
was  in  vain  attempted  against 
a  man  perfectly  skilled  in  the 
military  arty  a  peace  was  c- 
greed  ufion  with  Carausius» 
MectuSy  a  companion  of  hisy 
killed  him  7  years  after^  and 
himself  kefit  possession  of  Bri- 
tain three  years  after  him, 
who  was  suppressed  by  the  con* 
duct  of  Jsclepiodatusy  Captain 
of  the  guards.  Thus  after  10 
years  Britain  was  recovered. 


23.  About  the  same  time  a 
battle  was  fought  in  Gauly  by 
Constantius  Ca.^ar,  in  the 
country  of  the  Lingones ;  he 
met  both  with  good  and  ill  for* 
tune  in  one  day  ;  for  when^ 
upon  the  Barbarians  coming 
upon  him  o/  a  sudden,  he  was 
driven  within  the  city  by  such 
a  hasty  necessity,  that  ihe  gates 
being  shut^  he  was  lift  upon  the 
wall  by  ropes  ;  scarce  5  hours 
intervening,  his  army  coming 
up,  he  cut  off  almost  60,000  of 
the  Jlamanni,  The  Jumper  or 
Maximianus  too  made  an  end 
oj  the  war  in  Africa,  by  con- 
quering the  Quinguegentians, 
and  obliging  them  to  be  quiet, 
Diocletian  reduced  Achtlleua 
besieged  at  Alexandria  in  about 
8  months,  and  slew  him  :  he 
used  his  victory  cruelly,   and 


LIBER  IX. 


I5f 


eumque  interfecit;  vic- 
toria acerbe  usus  est,  to- 
lum  jEgyptum  gravibus 
proscriptionibus  cscdibus- 
que  fsedavit.  Ea  tamen 
occasione  ordinavit  pro- 
vide muUa,  et  disposuit, 
qua  ad  nostram  aeialera 
manent. 

24.  Galerius  Maximi- 
anus    primo     adversum 
prselium  exin  secundum 
habuit,   inter  Callinicum 
Carrasque       congressus, 
cum     incon  suite     magis 
quam  ignave  dimicasset ; 
admodum     enim    parva 
manu  cum  copiosissimo 
hoste   commisit.    Pulsus 
igitur,    et  ad  Diocleiian- 
um  profeclus,  cum  ei  in 
itinere  occurrisset,   tanta 
insolentia  fertur  a  Diocle- 
tiano  exceplus,  ut  per  ali- 
quot      passuum     millia 
purpuratus    tradatur    ad 
vehiculum  cucurrisse. 

25.  Mox  tamen  per  Il- 
ly ricum  Moesiamque  con- 
tractis  copiis,  nirsus  cum 
Narseo  Ormisdae  et  Sa- 
poris  avo,  in  Armenia 
majore  pugnavit  suc- 
cessu  ingenii,  nee  mi- 
nore  consilio  «imulque 
ortitudine,  quippe  qui  e- 
tiam  speculatoris  munus 
cum  altero  ac  tertio  equi- 
te  susceperit.  Pulso  Nar- 
seo, caslracjus  diripuit  ; 
uxores,   sorores,    liberos 


harrassed  all  Egypt  with  hor- 
r  id  prescript  ions  and  massacres» 
Yet  upon  that  occasion  he  regu- 
lated and  settled  many  thing» 
prudently,  whicJi  continue  to  our 
timet* 


24.  Galerius  Maximianus 
had  first  an  unfortunate  battle, 
afterwards  a  successful  one; 
engaging  the  enemy  betwixt 
Callinicum  and  Carra,  having 

Jought  inconsiderately  rather 
than  with  want  of  courage,  for 
with  a  small  army  he  engaged 
with  a  very  numerous  enemy* 
Wherefore  being  beat,  and  go» 
ing  to  Diocletian,  having  met 
him  upon  the  road,  he  is  said  to 
have  been  received  by  Diocleti- 
an with  so  much  insolence,  that 
he  is  recorded  to  have  run  by 
his  chariot  for  several  miles  in 
his  scarlet  robes* 

25.  However,  soon  after 
having  got  together  some 
troops  in  Illyricum  and  M<xsiay 
he  fought  again  with  J^Tarseus, 
the  grandjather  of  Ormisdas 
and  Sapory  in  the  greater  Ar- 
menia, with  vast  success,  and 
719  less  conduct  and  courage 
too,  as  who  with  another  horse- 
man or  two,  even  undertook  the 
office  oJ  a  spy.  After  he  had 
beat  Aarseus,  he  plundered  hi$ 
campy  got  his  wives,  sisters 
and  children,  and  an  infinite 
O 


us 


EUTROPli 


LIBER  IX. 


159 


susceplt ;  infinitam  ex-  number  of  the  nobility*  be- 
trinsecus  Persarum  no-  sidea^  great  filenty  of  the  Per- 
bilitatem,  gazam  Persi-  sian  treasure^  and  forced  the 
cam  copiosissinrtam,  ip-  King  into  the  furthest  deserts 
sum  in  ultimas  regni  so-  of  his  kingdom.  Wherefore 
litudines  coegit ;  quare  a  upon  his  returning  in  triumph, 
Diocletiano,  in  Mesopo-  he  luas  received  with  great  ho* 
tamia  cum  pr«sidiis  turn  nor  by  Diocletian,  staying  at 
morante,  ovans  regres-  that  time  in  Mesofiotamia  with 
sus,  ingenti  honore  sus-  some  troofis,  Jftcr  that  they 
ceptus  est.  Varia  dein-  carried  on  several  wars  both 
ceps  &  bimul  &t  viritim  together  and  apart  ;  the  ^ Car ' 
bella  gesserunt:  Carpis  &  fiians  and  the  Basfernians  be- 
Basteinis  subactis,     Sar-    ing  subdued,  and  the  Sarmati^ 

cms  conquered ;  oj  i\>hich  na» 
tions  they  settled  great  numbers 
of  prisoners  within  the  Ronvin 
confines. 

26.   Diocletian    ^vas  a  cun- 
ningly  behaved  man,  sagacious 


maUs  viclis  ;  quarum  na- 
lionum  ingentes  captivo- 
lum  copias  in  Romanis 
finibus  locaverunt. 

2G.  Diocletianus  mora- 
tus    callide    fuit,     sagax 


practevea,     &    admodum  too,  and  very  subtle  wit  ted,  and 

sublilis    ingenio,     8c  qui  who  sought  to  gratify  his  own 

severitatem  suam  aliena  cruelty  at  the  odium  of  another ; 

invidia  vellet  explere,  di-  however,  he  was  a  very  indus- 

ligenlissimus    tamen     &  trious  and   dexterous  Prince, 

solertissimus     princeps;  and \who first  brought  into  the 

Sc  qui  in  Imperio  Romano  Roman  Empire,  the  ma?2ner  of 

primus  regiacconsuciudi-  regal  custom,  rather  than   Ro- 

nis  formam  magis  quam  man    liberty;      and      ordered 

Roman»  libertatis  invex-  himself  to  be  adored,  whereas 

it ;    adorarique  se  jussit,  all  the  Emperors  before   him, 

cum  ante  cum  cuncti  sa-  were  saluted  only  ;  he  put  or^ 

lutareotur  :       ornamenta  namenta  oJ  jewels  in  his  clothes 

gemmarum  vtstibus  cal-  and  shoes;  for  the  badge  of  the 

ceamenlisque         indidit.  Jm/ierialdignity  before  it>as  only 

Nam  pnus  imperii  insig-  in  the  scarlet  robe;    the  other 

ne  in  chlamyde  purpurea  things  were  common, 

*  Eutropius  here  uses  the  woi'd  extrinsecns  barbarously,  according 
to  the  custom  of  that  age,  i«  the  sense  I  have  lemlered  it. 

f  Tliese  were  all  nations  of  Scythia. 

+  Our  author  talks  weakly  here,  as  though  there  was  any  thing  like 
liberty  amongst  the  Romans  under  the  Emperors  ;  the  whole  teuor 
of  the  history  suificiently  shews  the  contrary. 


tantum     erat:      reliqua 
communia. 

27.   Herculius   autem, 
propalam  ferus,  &  incivi- 
lis    ingenii,    asperitatem 
suam  etiam  vuUus  horro- 
rs signiiicans  :  Hie  natu- 
rae  suae  iudulgens,    Dio- 
cletiano in  omnibus    est 
severioribus  consiliis  ob- 
secutus.    Cum  tamen  in- 
gravescente   scvo,  parum 
se   idoneum  Diocletianus 
moderando  imperio  esse 
sentiret,  auctor  Herculio 
fuit,  ut  in  privatam  vitam 
concederent,  &.  stationem 
tuendae  reipublicac  viridi- 
oribus  junioribusque 

mandarent :  cui  sgre  col- 
Icga  obtemperavit ;  ta- 
men uterque  una  die  pri- 
vato  habitu,  imperii  in- 
signe  rautavit ;  Nicome- 
dia  Diocletianus,  Hercu- 
lius Mcdiolaiii ;  post  tri- 
umphum  inclytum  quern 
Rom»  ex  numerosis  gen- 
libus  egeruntpompa  fer- 
culorum  iilustri,  quaNar^ 
sei  conjuges  sororesque 
£c  liberi  ante  currum 
ducti  sunt.  Consesse- 
runt  autem  Salonas  unus, 
alter  in  Lucaniam. 

28.  Diocletianus  priva- 
tus  in  villa,  quae  baud 
procul  a  Salonis  est,  prae- 
claro  olio  senuit;  inusita- 


27.  But  Herculius  was  open- 
ly cruel,  and  of  an  immoderate 
temper,  discovering  his  rough- 
ness, by  the  terror  of  his  coun- 
tenance; he  indulgiyig  his  natu- 
ral temper,  complied  with  Di- 
uclctian  in  all  his  cruel  counsels. 
However,  when  Diocletian,  his 
age  bearing  heavily  upon  him, 
found  himself  but  little  ft  Jor 
governing  the  Empire,  he  ad* 
vised    Herculius,     that     they 
should  retire  to  a  private  life, 
and  deliver  up  the  post  of  de- 
fending   the    Empire   to  men 
more   vigorous  and  youthful; 
whom  his  colleague  with  much 
ado    obeyed;   both   of  them  in 
one  day  changed  the  badge  of 
the  Imperial  dignity,  for  a  pri- 
vate habit;  Diocletian  at*  Mco- 
media,  and    Herculius  at  Me- 
diolanum  ;    after  a   noble  tri- 
umph, which  both  of  them  had 
at  Rome  over  numerous  nations 
with  a  splendid  pomp  of  ^fercu- 
lums,  in  which  Karseus'  wives, 
sisters  and  children,  were   led 
before  their  chariot.     They  re- 
tired, one  to   Salonce,  and  the 
other    into  Lucania. 


28.  Diocletian  grew  old  a 
private  person,  in  glorious 
tranguillityy  in  a  country  house, 
which  is  not  far  from  Salona; 


*  Nicomedia  was  a  city  of  Asia  IVIinor,  in  Bithynia. 
f  These  were  conveniences  made  for  carrying  pictures,  statues,  &c. 
taken  in  war,  in  their  triumphs,  exposed  to  the  view  of  the  people. 


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ta  virtute  usu? ;  ut  solus 
omnium  post  conditum 
Romanum  Imperium,  ex 
tanto  fastigio  sponte  ad 
privatx  vitx  stalum  civi- 
litatemq;  remearet.  Con- 
tigit  igitur  ei  quod  nulli 
post  natos  homines,  ut 
cum  privatus  obiisset, 
inter  Divos  tamen  refer- 
rctur. 


having  shewn  an  uncommon  viv' 
tucy*  that  he  alone  of  all  mtv\sincc 
the  founding  of  the  Empire^  re* 
turned  from  so  great  a  dignity  y 
to  the  condition  of  a  private 
life^  and  on  an  equality  with  the 
other  citizens.  That  hafi/iened 
therefore  to  him  which  hapfien- 
ed  to  no  one  since  men  were  first 
pr&dttctdy  that  though  he  died  a 
firivate  man^  yet  he  was/ilaced 
amongst  the  Gods, 


*  This  is  a  mistake  :  Sylla  had  done  the  same  before  in  laying  dowa 
the  Dictatorship,  whick  had  been  given  him.  for  life. 


EUTROPII 


BREVIARIUM 


HISTORIC  ROMANCE. 


LIBER  X. 


H 


IS  igitur  abeunlibus, 
ad  administrationem  rei- 
publicjc  Constantius  & 
Galeriiis  Augusti  creali 
sunt  divisusqus  inler  eos 
Romanus  orbis,  utCialli- 
am,  Italian!,  Africam 
Constantius :  Ulyricum, 
Asiam,  Orientem  Gale- 
rius  obtineret;  sumptis 
duobus  Cxsavibus.  Con- 
stantius tamen,  contentus 
dignitatc  Auc:u6ti,  Italix 
atqueAfricx  aiministran- 
dx  solicitudinem  recusa- 
vit ;  vir  egregius  &  prx- 
stantissimxcivilitatis:  di- 
vinis  provincialium  ac  pri- 
vatorum  studiis,fisci  com- 
moda  non  admodum  af- 
fectans  :  d^ltcensq  ;  meli- 
us, pubiicas  opes  a  priva- 
lis  haberi,  quam  intra 
unum  cliiustrum  reser- 
vari  :  adeo  autem  cultus 
modici,  ut  feriutis  diebub, 

O 


1  HESE  gentlemen,  there- 
fore, retiring  to  a  private  life, 
Constantius,  and  Gaierius  were 
made  Emperors  for  the  admi- 
7126 1  rat  ion  of  the  government, 
and  the  Roman  Empire  was  di- 
vided betwixt  them,  so  that 
Constantius  had  Gaul,  Italy 
and  Jfrica  ;  Gaierius  held  lU 
lyricum,  Asia  and  the  East; 
two  Cossars  being  taken  m. 
But  Constantius  being  con- 
tent with  the  dignity  of  being 
Emperor,  refused  the  trouble 
of  governing  Italy  and  Africa; 
an  excellent  7nan,  and  of  ex- 
traordinary moderation,  bles- 
sed with  the  wonderful  afec- 
tion  of  the  provincials  and  sub- 
jects y  not  much  regarding  the 
improvement  of  his  exchequer, 
and  thinking  it  better  that  the 
piublic  wealth  should  be  possess- 
ed by  private  persons,  than  re- 
served in  one  treasury ;'  a 
man  of  such  modemte  accom>- 


f 


163 


EUTItOPil 


LIBER  X. 


16S 


perio  ejus  evaserant. 
Obiit  in  Britannia,  Ebo- 
raci,  principatus  anno  ter- 
tio  dccimo,  alque  inter 
Divos  relatus  est. 

2.  Galerius,  vir  &  pro- 


si  cum  amicis  numerosi-  modationsy  that  ufion  holy  days ^ 
oribus  esset  epulandum,  if  he  nvas  tojeast  with  a  good 
privatorum  eis  argento  number  of  his  friends^  his 
ostiatim  petito  triclinia  dining  rooms  ivere  furnished 
sternerentur.  Hie  non  with  the  filate  of  hia  subjects^ 
modo  amabilis,  sed  etiam  fetched  from  their  houses.  He 
venerabilis  Gallis  fuit,  was  not  only  amiable^  but  ve- 
prsccipue  quod  Diocleti-  nerable  to  the  Gauls,  es/iecially 
ani  suspectam  prudenli-  because  they  /uid  escaped  the 
am,  &  Maximiani  sangui-  susfiicioua  /irudence  of  Diode- 
Tiariam  temeritatem  im-    tian,  and  the   bloody  rashness 

of  Maximian,    under  his  go- 
vernment.    He    died  in  Bri- 
ta'tn,  at    York,    in   the    *13fA 
year  of  his   reign,    and   was 
ranked  amongst  the  Divi. 
2.  Galerius^  both  a  well  be- 
be  moratus,  8c  egregius  in    havedman,  and  excellent  in  the 
re  militari,   cum  Italiam    military   art,   when  he  found 
quoque,  sinente  Constan-    that  Italy  too,  by  Constantius* 

fier mission,  was   added  to  his 

administration,    made  two  Ca- 

sars.     But    Constantius   being 

dead,  Constantine,  his  son  by  a 

stantius,     ex    obscuriore    ^wfe  of   obscure   birth,   was 

matrimonio  ejus  filius,  in    made  Emfieror  in  Britain^  and 

Britannia  crealus  est  Im-    succeeded  as  ^  most  desirable 

perator,    &  in  locum  pat-    governor  in  the  room  of  his  fa- 

ris  exoptatissimus  mode-    ther.     At  Rome,  in  the  mean 

rator  accetsit.  Romx  in-    time,  the  guards,  raising  a  tu- 

tcrea^  Prxtoriani,  excita-    mult,  declared  Maxentius,  the 

to  lu'multu,    Maxentium    son  of   Herculius,   who  lived 

*  He  reigned  as  Emperor  b«t  little  above  two  years,  but  from  the 
tjrac  of  ki»  beiiig  made  Caesar  were  15  years. 

f  Her  name  was  Heleaa  ;  she  was  only  a  concubine  of  Constan- 
tius so  that  Constantine  is  to  be  ranked  among  the  number  of  bas- 
tards. 

X  Our  author  might  with  nx>re  truth  have  said  but  Indifferent,  aii 
appears  sufficiently  from  his  own  account  of  him  in  the  following: 
chapters,  as  well  as  from  other  authors,  particularly  Zosimus.  H<j 
was  the  first  Christian  Emperor,  but  his  character  did  no  great  crednt 
to  the  Christian  cause,  any  more tha»  thatof  o«ir  Harry  the  V 1 1  Ith  t> 
the  Reformation. 


tio,  administrationi  sux 
accessisse  senliret,  Cacsa- 
res  duos  creavit.  Verum 
Constantio  mortuo,  Con- 


HercuUi  filium,  qui  baud    then  in  *thefiubUc  villa  not  far 
procul   ab   urbe   in  villa  from  the  city,  Emfieror.    U^n 
publica   morabatur,    Au-    which  news  Maximianus  Her- 
ffustum    nuncupaverunt ;    culius  being  roused  to  the  hopes 
quo  nuncio  Maximianus    of  resuming  the  dignity  which 
Herculius  ad  spem  erec-    he  had  unwillingly  fiarted  with, 
tus     resumendi    fastigii,    came  immediately  to  Rome  out 
quod     invitus    amiserat,    of  Lucania;  which,  when  be- 
Romam  advolavit  e  Lu-    comt  a  private  fier  son,  he  had 
cania  quam  sedem  priva-    chose  for  the  filace  oj  his  abode, 
tus  elegerat,   in  agris  a-    growir^  old  in  a  mostfileasant 
moenissimis        consenes-    country,  and  he  advised  JJio- 
cens  :     Diocletianumque    cletian  by  letters  to  resume  the 
perlitterasadhortatusest,    authority   he  had  laid   down, 
ut  depositam   resumeret    which  he  slighted ;  butSevefus 
potestatem  quas  ille  irri-    Cctsar  being  sent   to   Rome  a- 
tas  habuit :  sed  adversum    gainst  this  rising  of  the  guards 
motum      Pratorianorum    and  Maxentius,   by   Galerius, 
atque   Maxentii  Severus    came   thither   with  an   army, 
Cxsar  Romam  missus  a    and  besieging  the  city,  was  de~ 
Galerio,     cum    exercitu    serted  by  the  villany  of  his  own 
venit :     obsidensque    ur-    soldiers. 
bem      militum     suorum 
scelerc  desertus  est.  , 

3.      Auctx    Maxentio        3.    Maxentius    fiower   was 

opes,        confirmatumque    now  increased,  and  hisgovern- 

imperium.  Severus  fugi-    ment  fixed.     SeveiMS  fiymg 

ens,  Ravennar  interfectus    for  it.f  was  slain  at  Ravenna. 

est.      Herculius     tamen     Yet  Herculius  Maximianus,  af- 

Maximianus,  posthaccin    ter  this  endeavoring  to  de/iose 

concione  exercitus  filium    Maxentius  his  son  m  an  assent- 

Maxentium  denudare  co-    %  of  the   army,    met  with   a 

natus,  scditionem  8c  con-    mutiny  and   ill  language  from 

vicia  militum  tulit.    Inde    the  soldiers.     From  thence  he 

adGalliasprofecmsest,do-    went  to  Gaul  ufion  a  feigned 

lo  comi^osito  tanquam  a   firetcnce,    as   f  he   had   been 

filio   esset    expulsus,     ut  forced  away  by  his  son,  that  he 

Constantino    i-enero  jun-    might  join  constantine  his  son- 

geretur  :    moliens  tamen    in-law.  Yet  endeavoring  to  take 

*  This  was  a  house  b«ilt  in  the  Campus  Martins,  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  ambassadors  from  foreign  nations. 

t  Others  say  he  was  «ia.n  at  Home,  See  V;etor  and  Zos.mus. 


-til 


fr^i^jyswA 


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Constantinum,  reperta  off  Contitajitmc ^having found  his 
occasione,  interficere,  qui  ofifiortunity  as  he  lhought,wA# 
in  Galliis,  et  militum  et  reigned  in  Gaul  with  great  fa» 
provincialiumingentijam  vor^  both  of  the  soldiers  and 
favore  regnabat,  cjesis  provincials,  having  overthrown 
Francis  atqileAlamannis,  the  Franks  and  Atamans,  and 
captisqiie  eorum  regibus;  taken  their  Kings,  *  whom  he 
quos  etiam  bestiis,  cum  likewise  exposed  to  wild  beasts, 
magnificum  spectaculum  upon  his  exhibiting  a  noble  en* 
muneris  parasset,  objecit.  tertainmenC  of  public  games. 
Detectis  igitur  insidiis  Wherefore  the  plot  being  disco* 
per  Faustam  filiam,  qua;  vered  bij  his  daughter  Faustc, 
dolum  viro  enunciavcrat,  who  made  known  the  contri- 
profugit  Herculius  Mas-  vance  to  her  husband,  Hercu- 
siliam,  ibiq  ;  oppressus:  lius  fled  to  Massilia,  and  ivas 
ex  ea  etenim  navigare  ad  there  put  to  death  ;  for  he  de- 
filium  prxparabat:  poenas  signed  to  sail  from  thence  to  his 
dedit  jnstissimo  exitu;  «o«.  He  was  punished  with  a 
vir  ad  omnem  asperlta-  most  just  death ;  a  man  in- 
tpm  sxvitiamque  procli-  c lin able  to  all  m^nntv  o(  cruel- 
ty and  severity,  faithless,  vex- 
atious  and  tjuite  void  of  all  mo* 
deration* 

4.  About  this  time  Licinius 
was  made  Emperor  by  Ga- 
lerius,  a  native  of  Dacia, 
undus,  nolus  ei  antiqua  known  to  him  by  an  old  friend- 
consaetudine,  et  in  bello,  ship,  and  agreeable  for  his  vi- 
quod  adversus  Narseum  gorous  efforts  and  services  in 
gesserat,  strenuis  labori-  the  vjar  which  he  had  carried 
b'is  8c  officiis  acceptus  :  on  against  jVarseus,  The  death 
mors  Galeiii  confeslim  of  Galerius  immediately  fol- 
secuta  est.  Respublica  lowed.  The  Empire  was  then 
turn  ab  iiis  quatuor  Im-  possessed  by  these  four  Emper- 
peratoribus  tenebatur,  ors,  Constantino  and  Maxen- 
Constantino  et  Maxentio,  tius,  sons  of  Emperors,  Lici- 
filiis   Augustorum,  Lici-    nius   and  Maximinus,  upstart 

♦•This,  if  true,  suflTRMeiitly  betrays  the  humanity  of  Constantine  j 
113  was  not  n.s  yet  imleed  a  Christian  ;  but  the  tiling  is  so  barbarous 
and  bmtish,  and  contrary  to  the  custom  of  th^  Romans,  that  I  kno^v 
not  how  to  orcfiiit  Earropius  therein.  They  did  indeed  sometimes  put 
their  captives  to  death,  evennrmces;  but  I  remember  no  instance  of 
this  savaf>e  nature,  even  in  the  reigns  of  the  most  cruel  Emperors. 


vus,    infidus,    incommo- 
du3,  civilitatis  penitus  ex- 

pers. 

4.  Per  hoc  tempus  Li- 
cinius a  Galerio  Impera- 
tor  est  factus,  Dacia  ori- 


LIBER  X. 


165 


nio    et   Maximino   novis 
hominibus.    Quinto  tam- 
cn  Constantinus  imperii 
sui   anno,  belium  adver- 
sum     Maxentium    civile 
commovit,     copias    ejus 
multis  praeliis   fudit,    ip- 
sum  postremo  Romac  ad- 
versus  nobiles   omnibus 
exitiis  ssevientem,    apud 
pontem  Milvium  vicit,  I- 
taliaque  est  potitus.    Non 
multo  post  deinceps  in  O- 
riente  quoque     adversus 
Licinium  Maximinus  res 
novas  molitus,    vicinum 
exitium     fortuita      apud 
Tarsum  morte  praevenit. 
5.  Constantinus  tamen, 
vir  ingens,  et  omnia  effi- 
cerc   nitens   qux    animo 
praparasset,  simul  prin- 
cipatum  totius  orbisaffec- 
tans,  Licinio  belium  intu- 
lit ;  quamvis  necessitudo 
illi  et  affiaitas  cum  eo  es- 
set,  nam  soror  ejus  Con- 
stantia  nupta  Licinio  e- 
rat;    ac   primo   eum   in 
Pannonia,  sccundo  ingen- 
ti  apparatu  belium  apud 
Cibalas  instruentem   re- 
pentinus  oppressit :  om- 
nique  Dardania,  Moesia, 
Macedonia   potitus,    nu- 
merosas  provincias  occu- 
pavit. 

6.  Varia  deinceps    in- 
ter cos  bella,  &  pax  rc- 


gentlemen.  Constant ine,  in  the 
fifth  year  of  his  reign,  raised 
a  civil  war  against  MaxentiuSf 
routed  his  forces  in  many  bat- 
tles, and   defeated   himself  at 
last,  raging  against  the  nobles 
at  Rome,  in  all  the  methods  of 
destruction,     at    the    Milvian 
bridge,     and     carried     Italy, 
xhen  not   long  after,  Maximi- 
nus attempted  a    war  against 
Licinius  in  the  East,  but  pre- 
vented   his    approaching    de- 
struct  ion  by  an  accidental  death 
at  *  Tarsus» 


5,  However  Constant  ine  be* 
i?ig  a  great  man,  and  endeavor* 
ing  to  effect  all  things  which  he 
had  proposed  in  his  mind,    at 
the  same  time  aspiring  to   the 
Empire    of  the    whole    world, 
made  war  upon    Eicinius,    al- 
though he  had  an  alliance    and 
affinity  with  him,  for  his  sister 
Constant  ia  wis  married  to  Li- 
cinius ;  and  he  suddenly  redu- 
ced him  at  first  in  Pannonia, 
a  second  time  carrying  on  the 
war  with   vast  preparations  at 
CibaU ;    ar.d   making  himself 
master  of  all    Dardania,  Ma- 
sia  and   Macedonia,  he   seized 
likewise   upon    several    other 
provinces, 

6.  After  that  there  were  va- 
rious battles  betwixt  them,  and 


»  The  capital  citjr  of  Cilicia,  the  birth  place  of  St.  Paul. 


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conciliata  ruptaque  est ; 
postremo  Licinius  nava- 
li  et  teri^stri  praclio  victus 
apud  Nicomediam,  se  de- 
didit,etconlra  religionem 
sacramenii  Thessalonicx 
privatus  occisus.  Eotem- 
pore  res  Romana  sub  uno 
Augusto  et  tribus  Caesa- 
ribus,  quod  nunquam  a- 
lias  fuit;  cum  liberi  Con- 
stantini  Gallix,  Orienti, 
Italiaeque  pracessent.  Ve- 
rum  iiisolentia  rerum  se- 
cundarem  aliquantum 
Constantinum  ex  ilia  fa- 
vorabili  animi  docilitate 
mutavit.  Primumneces- 
^itudlnes  persecutus,  eg- 
regiurn  virum,  et  sororis 
filium  commodx  indolis 
juvenem  interficit,  mox 
uxoreiii)  post  numerosos 
amicos. 

7.  Vir  primo  imperii 
tempore  optimis  princi- 
pibus,  ultimo  mediis 
comparandus,  Innume- 
rx  in  eo  animi  corporis- 
que  virtutes  claruerunt ; 
militaris  gloriae  appeten- 
tissimus,  fortuna  in  bellis 
prospera  fuit ;  vcrum  ita, 
ut  non  superaret  industri- 
am.  Nam  etiam  Gothos 
post  civile  be  Hum  varie 
profligavit,  pace  eis  ad 
postremum  data;  ingen- 
temque     apud    barbaros 


a  peace  made  and  broken  a- 
gain  ;  ai  last  hicinius  being 
conquered  in  a  battle  both  by 
sea  and  landy  at  Mcomediuy 
surrendered  himself)  and  con- 
trary to  the  obligation  of  the 
ojth^  was  alain^  now  Btrijit  of 
his  Imfierial  dignity  at  Thes' 
salonica»  At  that  time  the  Ro' 
man  state  ivas  under  one  Au- 
gustus and  three  Casars,  which 
never  had  been  bejore  ;  whilst 
the  sons  g/ Constant ine  govern- 
ed Gaul^  the  East  and  Italy. 
But  the  insolence  of  firosperity 
drew  Omstaniine  a  little  from 
that  amiable*  easiness  of  mind. 
First  Jailing  ufion  his  relations^ 
he  fiuC  to  death  that  excellent 
jierson^  and  his  sister's  son,  e, 
youth  of  a  civil  dis/iosition^ 
soon  after  his  wife  and  many  of 
his  friends, 

7.  He  was  a  man  to  be  com^ 
/tared  to  the  best  of  Princes,  in 
the  beginning  of  his  reign,  but 
to  indifferent  ones  in  the  latter 
end  of  it»  Innumerable  excel- 
lencies of  mind  and  body  shone 
out  in  him  ;  he  wan  most  greedy 
of  military  glory,  and  had 
good  fortune  in  his  wars  ;  but 
80  that  it  did  not  exceed  his  ac- 
tivity. For  after  the  civil  war^ 
he  overthrew  the  Got/is  too  se- 
veral times,  granting  them  a 
/leace  at  last  ;  and  fixed  in  the 
barbarous  nations  a  strong  re- 


*  Eutropius  uses  the  word  dorilit^is  here  in  a  sense  it  never  has  in  any 
good  autlior. 


LIBER  X. 


167 


gentes  memoriam  grati» 
collocavit.  Civilibus  ar- 
tibus  et  liberalibus  studiis 
deditus ;  affectator  justi 
amoris,  quern  omnino 
sibi  et  liberalitate  et  do- 
cilitate quacsivit ;  sicut  in 
nonnullos  amicos  dubius, 
ita  in  reliquos  egregius  : 
nihil  OGcasionem  praeter- 
mittens,  quoopulentiores 
eos  clarioresque  prxsta- 
ret. 

8.  Multas  leges  roga- 
vit ;  quasdam  ex  bono  et 
xquo,  plerasque  superflu- 
as^nonnullasseveras;  pri- 
musque  urbem  nominis 
sui  ad  tanlum  iastigium 
evehere  molitus  est,  ut 
Romx  xmulam  faceret. 
Bellum  adversum  Par- 
thos  molien*?,  qui  jam 
Mesopotamiam  fatiga- 
bant,  uno  et  trigesimo 
anno  imperii,  xtatis  sex- 
to et  sexagesimo,  Nico- 
media  in  villa  publica  o- 
biit.  Denuntiata  morte 
ejus  etiam  per  crinitam 
stellam,  qux  inusitatx 
raagniiudinis  aliquamdiu 
fulsit;  eam  Grxci  Come- 
ien  vocant  ;  atque  inter 
Divos  meruit  referri. 


membrance  of  his  kindness. 
He  was  given  to  the  arts  of 
peace,  and  the  liberal  studies  ; 
an  affector  of  a  just  love,  which 
he  did  indeed  procure  to  him- 
self both  by  his  bounty  and 
gentleness  ;  as  he  was  sotne- 
what  unaccountable  in  /lis  car- 
riage to  some  of  his  friends,  so 
was  he  exceedingly  good  to- 
wards the  rest ;  letting  slip  no 
opportunities,  whereby  he  might 
render  them  more  rich  and  fa* 
inous, 

8.  He  enacted  many  laws ; 
some  agreeable  to  goodness  and 
equity  ;  but  most  of  them  su- 
perfluous, and  soTHe  severe 
ones;  and  fir  St  attempted  toraise 
the  city  of  his  own  name  to  so 
great  a  height,  that  he  made  it 
a  rival  to  Rome,  As  he  was 
attempting  a  war  against  the 
parthians,  who  now  harrassed 
Mesopotamia,  he  died  in  a  pub' 
lie  villa  of  Nicomedia,  in  the 
3  \st  year  of  his  reign,  and  the 
(j6 th  year  of  his  age.  His 
death  was  foretold  by  a  haired 
star,  which  being  of  an  unu- 
sual bigness,  shone  for  some 
time,.  The  Greeks  call  it  Cu- 
metes*  and  he  deserved  to  be 
enrolled  amongst  the  Gods, 


*  ft  is  plain  byonr  ?uthor's  way  of  using  the  words  meruit  upon  o- 
ther  occasions,  lie  here  means  to  say,  that  Constantine  was  actually 
ejirolled  amongst  the  Divi  or  Demigods  which  sure  cannot  be  true, 
and  therefore  it  is  plain  by  that,  our  Eutropius  was  no  Christian,  since^ 
he  so  little  understood  the  religion,  as  to  tliink  it  consistent  therewith 
tod«ifydead  men. 


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LIBER  X. 


/G9 


9.    Successorcs    filios 
tres  reliquit,  atque  iinum 
fratris    filium.      Verum 
Dalmatius   Cxsar    pros- 
perrima  indole,  neque  pa- 
truo      absimilis,       hand 
multo  post  oppressus  est 
factione  militari,  et  C/On- 
stantio   patruele    suo   si- 
nente  potius  quam  juben- 
te.     Constantinum    por- 
TO,  fratri  bellum  inferen- 
tem,   et  apud  Aquileiam 
inconsultius  prxlium  ag- 
gressum,Constantisduces 
interemcrunt ;     ita    res- 
publica  ad  duos   Au gus- 
tos  redacta.     Constantis 
imperium  strenuum  ali- 
quandiu  et  justum   fuit ; 
mox  cum   et  valetudine 
impi'ospera,     et     amicis 
pravioribus  uteretur,    ad 
gravia    vitia    conversus, 
cum  intolerabilis  provin- 
cialibus,    militibus   inju- 
cundus     esset,    factione 
Magnentii     occisus    est. 
Obiit  autem  non  longe  ab 
Hispaniis,    in  castro  cui 
Helense  nomen  est,  anno 
imperii  xvii.  xtatis  trige- 
simo  :  rebus  tamen  pluri- 
inis  strcnue  militia  ges- 
lis,  excrcituique  per  om- 
ne  vilae  tempus  sine  gravi 
crudclitate  tevribilis. 

10.  Diversa  Consiantii 
forUina  fuit ;  a  Persis  en- 
im  multa  et  gravia  per- 
pessus,  sscpe  captis  op- 
pidis,     obsessis   uvbibus, 


9.  He  left  three  sons  his  sue* 
ccssorsy    and  one  his  brother's 
son.     But    Dalmatius    Cxsar, 
a  man  of  a  hafipy  genius,  and 
not   unlike  his  uncle,  'was  not 
long  after  taken    off  by  a  fac- 
tion of  the  soldiers,  and  Con- 
stant i  us  his  cousin  suffering  it^ 
rather   than    cotnwanding     it. 
The  Generals  of  Const ans  slew 
Constantine    too,    making  war 
upon    his  brother,    and   unad- 
visedly attempting  a   battle  at 
Jquileia;    thus     the    govern- 
ment was  reduced  to  two  Em- 
perors.    The    government    of 
Constans  was   active   and  jusi 
Jor  some    time ;  soon  after,  as 
he  had  'but    indifferent  health 
and  badjriends,  falUng  off  to 
great  vices,  when  he  was  noNV 
intolerable    to    the  provincials, 
and  unacceptable  to  the  soldiers, 
he   was  slain  by  a  faction   of 
Magnentius.    He  died  not  far 
from    Spain,    in  a  castle,    t/ur 
name  of  which  was  Helen,   in 
the  \7thyear  of  his  reign,  and 
the  30th  of  his  age ;    yet  after 
he  had  performed  very  many 
things  gallantly  in  the  war,  and 
had  been  terrible  to  his  army, 
through  the  whole  time  of   hi» 
life,  without  any  great  cruelty. 


10.   The  fortune  of  Constan- 
tius  was  different,  for  he  suf- 
fered,    many     and     grievous 
things}  from  the  Persians,    hts 
t'jwns   being  often  taken,    his 


cxsis    cxercitibus,     nul- 
lumque   ei  contra  Sapo- 
rem  prosperum  prselium 
fuit;    nisi  quod  apud  Sin- 
garam  baud  dubiam  vic- 
toriam    ferocia    militum 
amisit,  qui  pugnam  sedi- 
tiose     et    stolide    contra 
rationem    belli    die    jam 
praecipiti,     proposcerunt. 
Post      Constantis        ne- 
cem,     Magnentio     Itali- 
ani,     Africam,      Gallias 
obtinente ;    etiam  Illyri- 
cum  res  novas  habuit,  Ve- 
teranione    ad    Imperium 
consensu  militum  electo : 
quem  grandasvum  jam,  & 
cunctis  amabilem  diuiur- 
nitate    et   felicitate  mili- 
tisc,    ad   tuendum   Ulyri- 
cum    Principem    creave- 
runt :   virum  probum,  & 
morum   veterum,  ac  ju- 
cundac  civilitatis,  sed  om- 
nium  liberalium  artium 
expertem,  adeo  ut  ne  e- 
lementa    quidem    prima 
litterarum,  nisi    grandx- 
vus,   et  jam   Imperator, 
acceperit. 

11.  Sed  a  Constantio, 
qui   ad   uhionem  frater- 


cities  besieged,    hisarmits  cut 
off,    and  he  had  not  one    suc^ 
cessful    battle    against  Sapor, 
but  that  at  *Slngara  he  lost  an 
unquestionable  victory,    by  the 
unreasonable    keenness  of   his 
men,  who  seditiously  and  fool- 
ishly  called  for   battle,  when 
the  day  was  noiv  almost  apent, 
contrary  to  the  way  of  war, 
lifter    the  death    of  Cottstans, 
Magjientius  holding  Italy,  Af- 
rica and   Gaul,  Illyricum  too 
had   some    stir    in    it,     Vete- 
ranio  being  chosen  by  the   con* 
sent  of  the  soldiers  to  the  Em* 
pire  ;  whom   they  made  Empe- 
ror when  now  old ^and  amiable  to 
all  people,  by  reason  of  the  long 
continuance   and  success  of  his 
service  in  the  war,    to  defend 
Illyricum;     being    an   honest 
man,  and  \of  ancient    morals, 
and  agreeable  moderation  ;  but 
ignorant  of  all  the  liberal  arts, 
so  that  he  did  not   indeed  learn 
the  first  elements  of  letters,  till 
he  was  old,  and  now  Emperor, 


1 1 .  But    Veteranio's   autho- 
rity was    taken  from   him  by 


*  A  town  upon  the  Tigris. 

f  Of  ancient  morals,  that  is,  of  great  integrity  and  goodnes».  This 
manner  of  expression  seems  to  have  proceeded  from  a  humor,  that  has 
all  along  prevailed  in  the  world,  even  from  the  days  of  Homer,  of 
preferring  the  former  timeg  before  the  present ;  the  reason  of  which 
is,  that  people  are  more  minutely  and  fully  acquainted  with  the  vices 
and  follies  of  their  own  times,  and  therefore  conclude  them  worse  than 
the  foregoing ;  whereas  the  scripture  informs  us,  that  the  most  an- 
cient times,  n  e.  those  before  the  flood,  were  the  most  wicked. 


»J»^r"  •V"'- 


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EUTROPIl 


UBER  X. 


171 


nx    necis  bellum    civile 
commoverat,  abrogaium 
est     Veteranioni     impc- 
lium,    qui  novo  inusita- 
toque     more,     consensu 
militum  deponeve  insig- 
ne  compulsus  est.     Ho- 
rn» quoque  tumuUus  fu- 
it,  Nepotiano  Constanii- 
ni  sororis  filio  per  gladia- 
lorium    manum   impen- 
urn  invadente :  qui  sxvis 
exordiis  dignum  exitum 
nactus  est ;    vigesimo  e- 
nim  atque   octavo   die  a 
Magnenlianis       ducibus 
oppressus,   pcenas  dedit : 
caputq  ;  ejus  pilo  per  ui"- 
bem     circumlalum    est: 
oravissim»     proscnptio- 
nes    Sc    nobilium    cxdes 

fuerunt. 

12.    Non   multo    post 
Magnenlius   apud  Mur- 
siam  profligatus  acie  est, 
ac  pene  captus  :  ingentes 
Romani  imperii  vires  ea 
dimicatione     consumptie 
sunt,    ad    quxlibet   bella 
externa      idonea,      qux 
roultum       triumphorum 
possent        securitatisque 
conferre.      Orienti  mox 
a  Constantio    Cxsar   est 
datuspatruifiliusGallus: 
Magnentiusque     diversis 
prxliis    victus   vim   vit» 


Constant ius,  v>ho  had  raised  a 
civil  war,  to  revenge  his  bro- 
thers death,   nvho  after  a  new 
and  unusual  manner,  was  obli- 
jred  by  the  consent  of  the  soldi- 
ers to  lay  down  *lhe  badge   of 
his  power.      There  was  too  a 
tumult    at  Rome,    M'potianus 
the  son  of  Constantine'8  sister, 
seizing    the   government  by  a 
body   of  gladiators;  ^ho  met 
with  an  end  answerable  to  fiis 
cruel  beginning  ;  for  being  re-- 

duced  in  the  2m  day  oi  his. 
reien,  by  the  commanders  Oj 
Ma^nentius,  he  was  punished ; 
and  his  head  being  fixed  upon 
a  short  land  was  carried  about 
the  city.  fhere  were  most 
terrible  tiroscripiions  and  wia^- 
sacres  of  the  nobles. 


\2.  Mt  long  after,  Magnefi' 
tius  was  overthrown  m  a  batte 
at^Mursia,  and  well  nigh  m- 
ken-,  a  great  many  forces  of  the 
Roman  Empire  were    cut  off 
in  that  engagement,  sufficient 
for   any  Joreign   wars,     ancl 
which    might    have    Procured 
,nany  triumphs,  and  much  .e- 
curity,      X^oon    after    Gallus, 
his  uncles  son.  was  appointed 
Casar  in  the  East  by  Constcn- 
tius;  and Magnentius  being  dc- 

feated  in  several   battles,  put 
an  end  to  his  own  life  at  Eyons, 


has  been  oJnitt.  d  by  the  transcnber   o    books 

t  ^i^si::'s;;:^=cr  ;,:^^e  .eath  or  ^epot^an, 


sux  apud  Lxigdunum  at- 
tulit  imperii  anno  teriio, 
niensc  seplimo:  frater 
quoque  ejus  Senonis, 
quem  ad  tuendas  Gallias 
Cxsarem  miserat. 

13.   Per  hxc  tempora 
eliam  a  Consiantio  mul- 
lis      incivilibus       gestis 
Gallus     Cxsar      occisus 
est :   vir  natura  ferus,   & 
ad  tyrannidem  pronior,  si 
suo  jure  imperare  licuis- 
set.     Sylvanus  quoque  in 
Gallia  res  novas  molitus, 
ante    diem    irigesimum 
extinctus  est. 

14.  Solus  in    imperio 
Romano  eo  tempore  Con- 
stantius  Princeps  &  Au- 
gustus fait.     Mox  Julia- 
num  Cxsarem  ad  Gallias 
misit,    patruelem  suum, 
Gain  fratrem,  tradita   ti 
in  matrimonium  sorore  ; 
cum  multa  oppida  Barba- 
ri  expugnassent,  alia  ob- 
siderent,  ubique  foeda  vas- 
liias  esset,  Romanumque 
imperium  non  dubia  jam 
calamitale     mutaret :     a 
quo  modicis  copiis  apud 
Argentoraium  Gallix  ur- 
bem  ingentes  Alamanno- 
rum  copix  extinclx  sunt, 
rex  nobil'issimus  cuptus, 
Galliae    restilutx :    muUa 
posiea  per  eundem  Julia- 
num   egregie    adversum 
Barbaros      gesta      sunt ; 


in  the  2d  year  and  7th  month 
of  his  reign  ;  as  did  his  brother 
too  at  Se?icni,  whom  he  had 
sent  as  Cxsar  to  defend  Gaul. 


13.   Jbout  these    times    too 
Gallus   Casar,   after   he   had 
done  many  tyrannical  acts,  was 
put  to  death  by  Constantius  ;  a 
man  by  nature  cruel,  and  prone 
to  tyranny,   if  he  could  have 
reigned  in  his  own  right.    Syl- 
vanus too  in   Gaul,  attempting 
a  change  of  goverinment,  was 
taken  off  before    the  SOth  day 

after. 

14.  Constant ius  tvas  at  that 
lime  the  only  Prince  and  Em- 
peror in  the   Roman  Empire. 
Presently  after  he  sent  Julian 
as  Ctesar  into  Gaul;  his  cousin 
Gallus'   brother,   giving     him 
his  sister   in  iiuirriage  ;  when 
the  Barbarians  had  now  taken 
many  tow7is,  and  were  besieg- 
ing others;  and  there  was  evc- 
.    ry  where  a  woful  ravage  made, 
and  the  Roman    Empire  was 
tottering  in  visible  distress  ;  by 
whom,    with    a    small    army, 
vast  forces    of  the    Alamanni 
nvere  cut  off,  near    Strasbourg 
in  Gaul,  their  most  noble  King 
taken,    and     Gaul    recovered. 
Many  things  were  afterwards 
excellently  performed    by    the 
same  Julian  against  the  Barba- 
rians, and  the  Germans  driven 
beyond  the  Rhitie,  end  the  Ro^ 


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summotique  ultra  Rhe- 
num  Germani,  &  finibus 
suis  Romanum  imperi- 
um  restitutum. 

15.  Neque  multo  post, 
cum  Gernianici  jam  ex- 
ercitus  a  Galliarum  prac- 
sidio  toUcrentur,  consen- 
su miliuim  Julianus  fac- 
tum Augustus  est :  inler- 
jecfoquc  anno,  ad  Illyri- 
cum  obtinendum  profec- 
lus  est,ConstantioParthi- 
cis  bellis  occupato  :  qui- 
Inis  rebus  cognitis,  ad 
bellum  civile  conversiis, 
in  itinere  obiit,  inter  Ci- 
liciam  Cappadociamqae, 
anno  imperii  octaTO  & 
xzx,  »tatis  quinto  et  xl, 
meruitque  inter  divos  re- 
ferri  ;  vir  etjregix  tran- 
quillitalis,  placidus,  ni- 
mis  amiciset  familiaribus 
credens,  mox  etiam  uxo- 
ribus  dedilior  :  qui  tamen 
primis  imperii  annis  in- 
genti  se  modestia  egerit : 
fa  miliar!  um  etiam  locu- 
pletator:  neque  inhonora- 
tos  sinens,  quorum  labo- 
riosa  expertus  fuisset  offi- 
cia  :  ad  severitatem  tam- 
en prop^nsior,  si  suspicio 
imoerii  moveretur:  mitis 


man    Einpire   restored   to    its 
former  limits» 


15.  ^nd  not  long  after, 
when  the  German  armies  nvere 
now  removing  from  the  defence 
of  Gaul-,  Julian  was  made  Em- 
fieror  by  the  consent  of  the  sol- 
diers, and  a  year  after  went  to 
*seize  Illyricum,  Consttintine 
being  busy  in  the  Parthian 
wars;  which  things  being 
heard,  wheeling  off  to  this  civil 
war,  he  died  in  his  return,  be* 
twixt  Cilicia  and  Ca/i/iadociay 
in  the  S&th  year  of  his  reign^ 
and  the  45th  of  his  age,  and 
Was  deserving  enough  to  be 
ranked  amongst  the  Gods; 
a  man  of  extraordinary  meek- 
ness,  goudnatured,  trusting  too 
much  to  his  friends  and  famili- 
ars, and  at  last  too  much  sub» 
jected  to  his  wives  ;  who  howe- 
ver, behaved  with  great  mode- 
ration in  the  first  years  of  his 
reign  ;  an  enricher  too  of  hi» 
friends,  and  not  suffering  any 
to  go  unrewarded,  whose  labo^ 
rious  good  services  he  had 
known  by  exfierience :  yet  incli- 
nable a  little  to  severity,  if  the 
sufifiicion  of  a  design  upon  the 
Empire    was  once  raised    in 


*  Thi^  was  a  most  base  return  made  Constantius  for  his  kindness 
to  him  ;  he  had  all  along  professed  himself  a  Christian,  but  now  Uisco- 
rered  his  former  hypocrisy  by  a?ain  restering  the  Pagan  religion,  and 
persecuting  the  Christian  ;  for  which  he  commonly  goes  by  the  name 
of  Julian  the  Apostate.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable  parts,  as  ap- 
pears by  his  writings  still  extant. 


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173 


alias,  et  cujus  in  civili- 
bus  magis  quam  in  exter- 
nis  bellis  sit  laudanda 
fortuna. 

16.  Hinc  Julianus  re- 
mm  potitus  est,  ingenti- 
que  apparatu  Parihis  in- 
tulit bellum;  cui  expedi- 
lioni  ego  quoque  interfui. 
Aliquot  oppida  &  castella 
Persarum  in  deditionem 
accepit,  vel  vi  oppugna- 
vit.     Assyriamque  popu- 
latus,  castra  apud  Ctesi- 
phonlem  stativa  aliquam- 
diu  habuit :  remeansque 
victor,   dum  se  inconsul- 
tius  praliis  inserit,  hosti- 
li  manu   interfectus  est, 
sexto    Kalcindas     Julias, 
imperii  anno  neptimo,  se- 
tatis  altero  et  trigesimo; 
atque  inter  Divos  relatus 
est:  vir  egregius,  8c  Rem- 
publicam  insigniter  mode- 
raturus,  si  per  fata  licuis- 
set:    liberalibus  discipli- 
nis      apprime     eruditus, 
Grsecis     doctior,      atque 
adeo  ut  Latina  erudiiione 
iiequaquam  cum   Grscca 
scientia  conveniret:facun- 
dia  ingenti,  promptse  me- 
moriae,   &    tenacissim» : 
in  quibusdam  philosophy 


him  ;  otherwise  easy  enough, 
and  whose  fortune  is  more  to  be 
commended  in  his  civily  than  fo- 


reign wars. 


1 6.  *Jfter  this, Julian  enjoy- 
ed the  government, and  made  %var 
ufion  the  Par th tans,  with  vast 
firefiarations ;  in  which  expedi- 
tion I  was  likewise  fi  r  esent.    He 
took   some  towns    and  castles 
oj  the  Persians  upon  surrender, 
or  carried  them  by  force  ;  and 
wasting  Assyria,  had  for  some 
time  a  standi?ig  camp  at  Ctesi- 
phon  ;    and   returning  thence 
victorious,    whilst    he    rashly 
thrusts  himself  into  a  battle,  was 
slain  by  the  hand  of  the  enemy, 
upon  the  &th  before  the  calends 
of  July,  in  the  7th  year  of  his 
reign,  and  the  3Uf  of  his  age, 
and  was  ^placed  amongst  the 
Gods;  an  excellent    tnan,  and 
one     that    would     have     go- 
verned the  empire  excellently, 
if  he  might,  but /or  the  fates  ; 
extremely    well  instructed  in 
the  liberal  sciences,  but  more 
learned  in  the   Greek  tongue, 
and   so  that  he  did  not   in  his 
skill  in  the   Latin,   equal   his 
knowledge    in    the    Greek;  qf 
great  eloquence,  of  a  quick  and 
most    tenacious    memory ;     in 
some  things  more  like  a  philoso- 


*  In  the  year  of  Christ  361. 

f  As  our  author  was  upon  the  spot,  one  would  thing  he  should  know 
the  truth  in  this  matter ;  and  yet  it  is  hard  to  believe  that  Jovian, 
who  professed  himself  a  Christian,  could  be  guilty  of  such  a  scanda- 
lous as  well  as  a  senseless  abomination,  so  contrary  to  the  whole  tenor 
of  his  religion. 

P  3 


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proprior  :  in  amicos  libe- 
ralis:  sed  minus  diligens 
quam  tantum  principem 
decuit:  fueruntenimnon- 
iiuUi,qui  vulnera  gloriae  e- 
jusint'ciTijni:  in  provinci- 
alesjuslissimus,et  tributo- 
rum,  quatenus  ferri  pos- 
set, oppressor  :  civilis  in 
cunctos ;  mediocrem  ha- 
bens  xrarii  curam  :  gloriae 
avidus,  ac  per  earn  animi 
plerumque  immodici:  ni- 
mius     religionis    Chris- 
lisanx  insectator,  perin- 
de  tamen  ut  cruore  absti- 
neiet.     Marco  Antonino 
non  absimilis:  quern  eti- 
am  lemulari  studebat. 

17.  PosthuncJovianus, 
qui  lunc  domeslicus  mi- 
litabat,ad  oblinendum  im- 
perium  consensu  exerci- 
tus  eleclus  est,  commen- 
dalione  patris  quam  sua 
militibus  notior ;  qui  jam 
lurbatis    rebus    excrciiu 
quoque  inopia  laborante, 
uno  a  Persis  alque  allero 
pvjelio  victus,  pacem  cum 
Sapore  necessariam  qui- 
dem,  sed  ignobilem  fecit, 
mulctatis  finibus,  ac  non- 
nuUa     imperii     Romani 
tradita;   quod  ante  eum 
annis  mille  centum  &  duo- 
bus  de  viginti  fere,  ex  quo 
Romanum  imperiuracon- 
ditum  erat,  nunquam  ac- 
cidit.  Qiiinetiam  legiones 
noslr»  ita  Sc  apud  Cau- 


/zA^r  than  a  Prince  ;  liberal  f 
his  friends^  but  less  careful  in 
that    matter   than    became    so 
great  a  Prince  ;for  there  were 
some  that  brought  a  blemish  on 
his  glory  ;  most  just  totvards 
theproviiicialsy  and  a  suppress 
sor  of  the  taxes,  as  much   a8 
could   be  borne ;  moderate  to- 
wards all ;    takitig   indifferent 
care  of  the   treasury  }   greedy 
oj  glory,  and  that  Jor  the  most 
part  of  an  immoderate  inclina-^ 
tim  ;  too  great  a  persecutor  of 
the   Christian  religion,  yet    so 
that  he  abstained  from  blood  i 
not  unlike  Marcus  Jntoninus^ 
whom  also  he  made  it  his  busi- 
ness to  imitate, 

17.  Jfter  him  Jovian,  who 
then  attended  on  him  in  the  ex- 
pedition, as  chamberlain  of  th« 
households    was  elected  by  thr, 
consent  of  the  army  to  hold  the 
Empire,    more  known    to    the 
soldiers  by  the  recommendation 
of  his  father,  than    his   own  ; 
who,  jnatters  being  now  in  con- 
fusion^ and  the  army  distressed 
with  want  J  being  defeated  in  one 
battle  or  two  by  the  Persians, 
made  a  peace  with  Sapor,  ne- 
cessary   indeed,    but    ignomi- 
Tiious,  being  deprived  of  some 
territory  ;    and  some  parts  of 
the   Roman  Empire  were  deli- 
ver ed,    which  before   him  had 
never  happened,  siiice  the  Ro- 
man Empire  was  Jounded,  for 
a   thousand   one    hundred  and 
eighteen  years»  Moreover^  our 


LIBER  X. 


175 


dium  per  Pontium  Tele-    legiojis   were  so  made  to  pass 
sinum,  ita  &  in  Hispania    under   the  yoke,  both  at  Cau- 
apud  Numantiam,    &  in    dium    by    Pontius    TelesinuSy 
Numidia  sub  jugum  mis-    and  so  in  Spain  at  JSiumantia, 
sae  sunt,    ut  nihil  tamen    and  in  Mimidia;  that,  however, 
finium  traderetur.  Ea  pa-    7io  part  of  the  Roman  territory 
eis  conditio    non  penitus    was   surrendered   up»     *lhat 
reprehendenda    foret,  si    article  of  peace  was  not  to   be 
foederis         necessitatem,    absolutely    condemned,    if  he 
cum  integrum  fuit,    mu-    would  have  set  aside  the  obliga- 
tare    voluiiset :     sicut   a    tion  of  the  treaty,  when  it  was 
Rom  an  is     omnibus     his    in  his  power,  as  was  done  by 
bellis,quaecommemoravi,    the  Romans  in   all  those  wars 
factum  est  Nam  &  Sam-    I  have  mentioned  ;  for  i?Jimedi- 
nitibus,  Sc  Numantinis,et    atelywarwas  made  both  upon 
Numidis  confestim  bella    the  Samnites,  and  J^umantines 
illata  sunt :  neque  pax  ra-    and  Mimidians,  nor   was   the 
ta  fuit,  Sed  dum  semulum    peace  confirmed.      But  whilst 
imperii     veretur,      intra    he  fears  a  rival  for  the  Empire, 
Orientem  residensjglorix    whilst  he  resided  in  the  East, 
parum    consuluit    itaque    he  but  little  consulted  his  own 
iter  ingressus,     atque  11-   glory.        Wherefore     putting 
lyricum  petens,in  Galatiae    himself  upon    his  march,   and 
finibus    repentina    morte    going  for  Illyricum,  he  died  a 
obiit :  vir  alias  neque  in-    sudden  death  in  the  country  of 
ers  neque  iraprudens,  Galatia  ;  a  man  otherwise  nei- 

ther inactive,  nor  wanting 
sense» 
18.  Multi  exanimatum  18.  Afany  think  he  was  ta. 
opinantur  nimia  crudita-  ken  off  by  an  excessive  erudi- 
te: inter  coenandum  e-  ty,  for  he  had  indulged  himself 
nim  epulis  indulserat :  in  eating  at  supper;  some  by 
alii  odore  cubiculi,  quod  the  smell  of  his  chamber,  which 
ex  recenli  tectorio  calcis,  was  dangerous  to  the  lodgers, 
grave  quiescentibus  erat :  by  reason  of  afresh  plastering 
quidam  nimietate  pruna-    of  lime;  some  think  by  too  greet 

*  Our  author  talks  here,  as  your  great  politicians  usually  act,  with- 
out the  least  rcsrard  to  honour  and  justice,  hut  onj'  to  interest.  There 
was  tUis  remarkable  difterencc  betwixt  the  case  of  Jovian  and  th« 
rest  he  alledges,  that  the  Consuls,  by  whom  the  peace  at  Caudium,&c. 
was  made,  had  no  power  to  conclude  a  peace,  but  Jovian  bad  as  much 
as  to  make  \^  ar. 


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propiior:  in  amicos  libc- 
rwlis:  sccl  minus  (liligens 
(]uam  tantum  principcm 
(Iccuit :  fucrunt  enimnon- 
M\iUi,c|'ii  vulncra  gloiiae  c- 
jvjs  intcsrjni:  in  provinci- 
al'jsjublisbiinus,et  Iributo- 
nim,  quatcnus  fcrri  pos- 
set, oi)prebsor  :  civilis  in 
cunctos  ;  mediocrcm  lia- 
bcns  scrarii  curam  :  gloria: 
avicliis,  ac  per  earn  aninii 
j;l'jrumque  ininiodici:  ni- 
iiiiijs  relii^ionis  C'hris- 
li.sans  insectatoi',  perin- 
(le  lanien  ut  ci  uore  absli- 
neiet.  Marco  Antonino 
non  absimilis:  cpiem  eli- 
am  icinulari  sluclcbat. 

17.  Poslbunc  Jovianus, 
(jui  lunc  (Jomeslicus  mi- 
litabaljad  oblinendum  im- 
})enum  consensu  exerci- 
tus  eleclus  e^t,  commen- 
dations palris  quam  sua 
iniblibus  notiorj  qui  jam 
luibaiis    rebus    exercilu 
(juo^^ue  inopia  laborante, 
uiio  a  Fersis  alque  aliero 
prxlio  victus,  jjacem  cum 
Sapcre  nccessariam  (pii- 
dem,  sed  iti^nobilem  fecit, 
mulctatis  finibus,  ac  non- 
nuUa     imperii     Homani 
iradita ;    quod  ante  eum 
annis  mllle  centum  &  duo- 
bus  de  vii^inti  fere,  ex  quo 
Romanum  impcriumcon- 
ditum  erat,  nunquam  ac- 
cidit.  Quineliam  Icgioncs 
nustrx  ita  Sc  apud  Cau- 


/7;fr  than  a  Prince  ;  liberal  t& 
his  friends^  but  less  cartful  in 
tbat  matter  than  became  so 
If  real  a  Prince  ;for  there  were 
some  that  brought  a  bleviis/i  on 
his  (florij  ;  most  just  towards 
theproviiiciah^  mid  a  suppres- 
sor of  the  tnxeSf  as  much  as 
could  be  borne ;  moderate  to- 
ivards  all ;  taking  indifferent 
care  of  the  treasury  ;  greedy 
of  glory»  and  that  Jor  the  most 
Jiart  of  an  immoderate  inclinU' 
tion  ;  too  great  a  persecutor  of 
the  Christian  religion^  yet  so 
that  he  abstained  from  blood  ; 
not  unlike  Marcus  Jntoninus^ 
whom  also  he  ?nade  it  his  bust- 
nessto  imitate, 

17.   Jfier  him  Jovian^  who 
then  attended  on  him  in  the  ex- 
pedition^ as  chamberlain  of  the 
household,,    was  elected  by  the 
consent  of  the  army  to  hold  the 
ILmpirey     more  known    to    the 
solditrs  by  the   recommeJidation 
of  his  father.,   than    his   own  ; 
who^  ??uUters  being  now  in  con- 
fitsio?i,  and  the  army  distressed 
with  want^  being  defeated  in  one 
battle  or  two  by  the  Persians^ 
made  a  peace   with  Sapor,^  ne- 
cessary   indeed  y    but    ignomi- 
niousy  being  deprived  of  some 
territory  ;    and   some  parts  of 
the    Roman  Empire  were  deli- 
vered^   which  before   hirn  had 
never  happened^  since  the  Ro- 
man Empire  was  Jowuled^  for 
a   thousajid   one    hundred  and 
eighteen  years»  Moreover ^  our 


LIBER  X. 


\7: 


dium  per  Ponlium  Tele-  legio?is  were  so  made  to  jiasa 
sinum,  ita  &  in  Hispania  under  the  yoke^  both  at  Cau- 
apud  Numantiam,  &  in  dium  by  Pontius  Teles inus, 
Numidia  sub  jugum  mis-  and  so  in  Spain  at  Auraantia, 
sae  sunt,  ut  nibii  lamcn  andinjYumidia;ihatfiowever^ 
finium  traderetur.  Ka  pa-  no  part  of  the  Roman  territory 
eis  conditio  non  penitus  was  surrendered  up.  *lhat 
reprehendenda  foret,  si  article  of  peace  was  not  to  be 
fcEderis  necessitatem,  absolutely  condemned^  if  he 
cum  integrum  fuit,  mu-  tvould  have  setaaide  the  oblir^a- 
tare  volui^set  :  sicut  a  tion  of  the  treaty^  whenit  was 
Romanis  omnibus  his  in  his  power^  as  was  clone  by 
bellis,quxcommemoravi,  the  Romans  in  all  those  wars 
factum  est  Nam  &  Sam-  I  have  mentioned ;  for  immedi- 
nitibus,  &  Numantinis,  et  ately  war  was  made  both  upon 
Numidis  confestim  bella  the  Samnites^  and  ^lumantines 
illata  sunt :  neque  pax  ra-  and  Xumidians^  nor  was  the 
lafuit.  Sed  duni  xmnlum  pieace  confirmed.  But  whilsc 
imperii  veretur,  intra  he  fears  a  rival  for  the  Empire, 
Orientem  residens5glorix  whilst  he  resided  in  the  Easty 
parum  consuluit  Jtaque  he  but  Utile  consulted  his  own 
iter  ingressus,  atque  II-  glory.  Wherefore  putting 
Iyricumpetcns,in  Galatix  himself  upon  his  march,  and 
iinibus  repentina  morte  going  for  Illyricum,  he  died  a 
obut :  vir  alias  neque  \x\-  sudden  death  in  the  country  of 
ers  neque  imprudens.  Galatia;  a  man  otherwise  nei- 

ther inactive  y  nor  wanting 
sense, 
18.  Muhi  exanimatum  18.  Many  tiiink  he  was  la- 
opinantur  nimia  crudita-  ken  off  by  an  excessive  crudi- 
le  :  inter  coenandum  e-  ty,  for  he  had  indulged  himself 
nim  epulis  indulserat  :  in  eating  at  supper;  some  by 
alii  odore  cubiculi,  quod  ihesmeHofhis  chamber,  which 
ex  recenti  tectorio  calcis,  was  dangerous  to  the  lodgers^ 
grave  quiescentibus  erat :  by  reason  of  afresh  plastering 
quidam  nimietate  pruna-  of  lime;  some  think  by  too  greet 
*  Our  author  talks  Jjfie,  as  your  great  politicians  usually  act,  with- 
out the  least  icirard  to  honour  ajid  justice,  hut  ony  to  iuKnciit.  There 
was  this  remarkable  difteroucc  bctuixtthe  case  of  Jo\ iau  and  the 
rest  he  alleriges  that  the  Consuls  by  whom  tlie  peace  at  Cr.U(lium,&c. 
was  ma;le,  had  no  power  to  conclu  Jo  a  peace,  but  Jovian  had  as  much 
as  to  inakc  war. 


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EUTROPII 


rum,  quas  gravi  frigore 
adoleri  multas  jusserat. 
Decessit  imperii  mense 
septimo,  quarto  decimo 
Kalendas  Maitias:  ata- 
lis,  ut  qui  plurimum  ac 
minimum  tradunt,  tertio 
et  trigesimo  aimo  :  ac  be- 
nignitatc  Principum,  qui 
ei  successerunt,  iutei  Di- 
V03  relatus  est.  Nam  & 
civilitali  proprior,  8c  na- 
tura  admodum  liberalis 
fuit.  Is  status  erat  Ro- 
manae  rei,  Joviano  eodem 
Sc  Varroniano  Consuli- 
bus,  anno  urbis  condilae 
millesimo  cenlesimoScno- 
nodecimo.  Quiaautemad 
inclytos  Principes  Tenc- 
randosque  pervenUimest, 
interim  opeii  modum  da- 
bimus.  Nam  reliqua  sty- 
lo majore  dicenda  sunt : 
quae  nunc  non  tarn  pr^e- 
termitiimus,  quam  ad 
majore m  scribendi  dili- 
gentiam  reservamus. 


♦  One  thou<!an;l  one  liuiidied  and  .sixteen. 

-f-  Tlie  rtader  is  not  from  htiire  to  iinngine  that  these  famous  and 
itneiable  Pjiriccs,  as  Kutroj>ius  cjUs  them,  were  a  bit  better  than  a 
great  many  of  the  foregoiue,  or  near  so  j^ood  as  some  of  them.  This 
IS  only  a  piece  of  gn>s»  riattery  ;  a  tribute  more  or  less  paid  to  all 
Prinrcs  without  distinction,  and  vviiich  w  ith  men  of  scnre  or  eonsidei  - 
ation  alv^ays  stands  foi"  nothing,  in  the  language  of  tlatterers,  the 
present  Prince  always  exceeds  all  tho  foregoing,  jnstas  much  as,  with 
respect  to  other  nie.i,  in  tiio  vulgar  e^iiiuatioii;  fjrm*r  times  were 
better  than  the  present. 


a  quantity  tf  charcoal^  ivhich 
he  had  ordered  to  be  burnt  in 
great  filenty ^  in  a  grievous  cold» 
He  died  in  the  7th  month  of  his 
reign  jU/ion  the  1  Ath  before  the  ca- 
lends of  March^  and  the  SSd 
year  of  his  age  ;  and  by  favor 
of  the  Princes  that  succeeded 
him,  was  enrolled  amongst  the 
Gods  ;  for  he  was  both  inclina- 
ble to  moderation^  and  by  nature 
very  generous»  That  was  the 
cojidition  of  the  Roman  Empire^ 
when  the  same  Jovian  and  Var- 
ronian  were  Consuls,  in  the  year 
from  the  building  of  the  city* 
1119.  t^"^  because  we  are  now 
come  to  famous  and  venerable 
Princes,  we  shall  here  put  an 
end  to  our  work.  For  what 
follows  must  be  related  in  a 
loftier  *tyle,  which  we  do  not 
now  so  much  omit,  as  reserxe 
to  a  greater  dihgence  i^i  wri- 
ting» 


INDEX. 


Pricr  numerus  librum,  posterior  caput  indicat. 


\^n\hhVA:s, 


.-    '-x.i,».  o,     Aloxandriiiae 

-i  X    obsossus  captu^(ii'c  ab  l)io- 
cletir-.iK»,  9.  oj, 

Acilius  Glabrio  bene  pug  lat  in   \- 

ehaia,  4.  3. 
Adherbal  cum  fralro   fliomosalc 


JMteriniitur  a  Jugurtha,  4. 


o 


O. 


Adihabeni    ab    Trajanu  '  vi'noun- 
Tur,  8.3. 

Adri.!nussucce(IitTraiano,v'ic.8.6. 
A.gyi)tusadditurImp.'l;uiiiano,7.6. 
/Lmihanus    rei   novas  uiolitur  iti 

Mcpsia,  9.  b.  fit  Impcrntor,  9.  d 
^•Einiliu,-  Paulus  Pcsnos  /luvali  ctr- 

lamijje  superat,  2.  '12. 
.^■T-'.uiilius  Paulu..-  pneiio  ud  Cainias 

occiditur, .':,  10. 

^tlmilius    Paul-s  Perseura  ::^.Iace- 

doiiiae  vincit,  4.  7. 
Afranius  Pompeii  U.v<atus  ab  Julio 

Caesare    hi    Hispania    supura- 

tur,  G.  20. 

Agrippa  (M.)  in  Aqnitania  rem 
pros.Kire  gerit,   7.  .5. 

Alamanni  vastati.s  GalJiis  in  Ita- 
liam  irrumpunt,  9.  8.  ab  Con- 
Mantio  Cacsarc  magna  clade  al- 
ficiunturin(;a!li.i,  9.  23.  rursns 
ab  Juliaiio  Cas.-iart',  10.  14. 

Albani  a  Pompeio  vincuntur,  6.  4 

Albinus(C;|o(lius)  a  Severo  vincitur 
aj)ud  Lugdujium,  8.  9, 

Alexajider  imp.  8.  '23. 

Allia,  ibi  vincuntur  ab  Galiis  Ro- 
ma ni,   1.  '20. 

A/icus  Rev  Romancrum,  1.  6. 

Andriscus,  Psueiiu])hilippus,  4.  13. 

Annibal  Saguntmn  capit,  &,c.  3.  7* 

Antemnates,    1.2. 

Antiochus  Kex  Syriae  vincitur, 
4.  3.  &c. 

Antoninus,  IVI.  &  L.  Annius,  S.  P. 

Antonmus  (Marcus)  7.  1.  ikt-.srn. 
Appuis  Claudius  Censor,  '2.  y. 
Arabes  subiguntur  a  Severo,  8*  1 8. 
a  Pompeio,  fi,  1 4. 


Archdausdux  INIithridatis  ab  Syl- 
la  vincitur,  5.  6. 

Aiiarthes,  4.  (>. 

Ariubar/cajies^.  5. 

Arizitobnlus  Rex  .lud.Torum,  6.  16. 

Aristonit;us  beliuui  in  Asia  movct, 
^■c.  4. '^0. 

Asiirubai   Anniljalis  iVater  magiia 

^  <inn  sM.igesuperatur,  ;3.  is. 

Athena?  a  Sylla  cajiiuntur,  5.  0. 

Attains  L'cx  Pergam,  4.  4. 

Attiiais  [:egu[us  capitur  a  Pa-nLs, 
5.  'Jl,  superutin-,  3.  'J8. 

A.ugustus,  7,  1.  ^c.  aoq. 
Aiuvlianus  imperator,  9.  13,  &c. 
^'- — j'iagaiiuas,  ?.  00. 
l--:ilb;jms  hu,).  9.  2. 
iiassinus  Imp.  3.  19. 


Bastenijc  subig.  9.  23. 


^t;ssi,  (],  10. 

Bibulus  Cousui  cum  Julio  Ca?sare. 
6.17. 

Bocchus  Kex  Mauritr.nice,  4.  27. 
i--rutus,  o.  s.  ^n,  4.  1  9. 

C— C;ecilias  :Metellus  mittitur  in 

Macedoniain    contia    }*suedo- 

philij)pum,4.  13. 
Ca-pio  Consul  in  Africam  proficJK- 

f'itur,  2.   23. 
Caesar  (Julius)  fit   Consul,   &c.  d 

17,  &c. 
Caligula  imp.  7.  12. 
Calpurnius    JJcstia  Consul  mitti- 

turcontra  Jugurtham,  4.  6. 
Camillus,  1 . 1  l>,cScc.— Canna3,3.'10. 
Cautabria  addita  Impcrio,  6.  7. 
Caracal  la  Imp.  8.  22. 
Carau>^ius  pmpuram  sumit,  9.  2L 
Cassius(Caius)  6.  25. 
Catalina.  6.  1.5. 
Cato  so  oceidit,  (5.  23. 
Catulus  Consul  cum  C.  Mario  con- 
tra   Cimbros   felicitcr  puirnat. 

Cicero  Consul,  6.  Ij.  occiditur  a 
'I'riumvjris,  7.  2, 


INDEX. 


< 'imbii  \ incuiitur  aC. Mano.5. 1 ,2. 
Claudius  hup.  7.  13. 
Cloopatra,  6.  '22.  7.  6. 
Couistaiitius  Constantiui  M.  jiater 

iit  Casar,  9.  '22.  Augustus  cre- 

atur,  10.  1. 
Constanlius  Constantiui  fil.  Imp. 

10.  9. 
Coustautinus  M.  Imp.  .10.2. Scsc^. 
Cujistautinus  Constautiui  ]\I.  tilius 

Juip.  10.  9. 
Coustans  Imp.  10.  9. 
Coisule  priiuunj  citautui-,  1.  9. 
Cuiiuthus  capta  diripitur  a  Mum- 
in  io,  9.  14. 
Cojoli  capiuntur,  1.  1-i. 
<^'orvinu^,  2.  C. 
Crassus  contra  Parthos  prullcisci- 

tur,  6.  IB. 
Curius  iJcntatus,  2.  9. 
CuiS ji-  Dictator  contra  Samnite.s 

pu^uat,  2.  8,  9. 
I^. — l)acia  Prov  incia  facta  a  Tra- 

jano,  8.  2. 
Decemviri  creantur,  1.  18. 
Dioolotianus  Imp.  9.  21. 
Domltianus  Imp.  8.  1. 
DuiliusConsulPa'nos  navali  prx'lio 
^  superat,  2.  20. 
1^. — Eboraci  moriturSe\  erus.8. 19. 
£dess£e  muritur  Antonius  Bassia- 


nus,  8.  20. 


Eleplianti  primum  in  Italiam  ad- 
duct  i,  2    11. 

EumenesKomanoium amicu?,4.  4. 

FabiusMaxinms,  5.  9,  ^c. 

Fabricius  contra  Pvrrhum  mitti- 
tur,  U.  14. 

Falisci  capiuntur  a  Camillo,  1.19. 

Fausta  uxor  Constantiui  M.  10.  3. 

Fidenatus  aRomulo  viucuutur,l.2. 

Flaminius Consul  a!)  Annibale  vic- 
tus  intcrHcitur,  3.  9. 

Flaminius  adversusPhiiippumaiit- 
tilur,  4.  2. 

Florianus  imp.  9.  16. 

Franci  mare  infestant,  9.  2  2. 

O. — Cabii  subia^untur,  1.  7. 

fJal.itia  proviucia  facta,  7.  10. 

Galbalmp.  7.  16. 

Gak'rius  Casar  fit  9.  22,  Augus- 
tus 10.  1. 


Calli   Romam  Capiunt,  1.  20.  n.- 

gantur,  2.  :>.  rursus  3.  6. 
Gallienus  Imp.  9.  7,  8 
Ge:itiublv  X  lllyrici,  4.  6. 
Gcta  Imp.  8.  19. 
Gurdianus,  Imp.  9.  2. 
Gothi  va>taiit  Graeciam,  IVIacodo- 

niam,  .Sec.  9.  8.  vincuntur,  9.11. 

rursus,  9.  H.  rursus,  10.  7. 
Gracchus   CSempronias)   v;ncitur 

ab  Aiinibalc,  3.  9. 
II. — Ilamilcar  du\  Pcnorum  na- 

\ali  pu^na  vincitur,  2.  21. 
Ileliogabalus  Imp.  8.  22. 
Ilelvctii  vincuntur  ab  J.  Cacsarf. 

6.  17. 

Ilcrculius   Caesar  factus,    9.    20. 

Aug.  9.  22. 
Hiempsal    ab   Jugurtha  caditui., 

4.  20. 
Hiero  Re \"  Sicilia?,  3.  1,2. 
Hierosolyma  capitur,  7.  19. 
Ilirtius  Consul,  7.  !. 
liostilianus  Imp.  9.  5. 
liubiJius  Re>;.  Rom.  1.  4. 
I. — Iberia subacta,  6.  i'i.  lursusa 

Trajano,  8.  3. 
lilyrii  vincuntur,  4.  6. 
Indi  legatos  ad  Augnstum  mittunt, 

7.  10. 

Ingcnuus  sumit  purpuram,  occidi- 
tur,  9.  8. 

Joviaims  Imp.  10.  17. 

Iturxi  vicuntur,  6.  14. 
I  Juba  Rex  Mauritanise  sibi  necciii 
j       consciscit,  6.  23. 
'  Jiidai  vincuntur  a  V^espas.  f.  19. 
:  Jugurtha  Rex  Numidarom,  4.  2  j. 

Julianus  Imp.  10.  1  k 

Junius  lirutus,    1,  9. 
;  L. — l.iclius,  4.  4. 
;  liartius  primus    Roms  Dictator, 

1.  12. 

Latini  ingenti  pu?iia  superantur, 

2.  7. 

Lcpidus  Magister  cquitum,  6.  23. 

Triumvir,  7.  2. 
I.icinius  Imp.    10.  4. 
I.igurcs  subiguntur,  3.  I. 
Livius  Saluiatur  vincit   Asdruba- 

lem,  3.  18. 
Luculius    f'\   ^. 


INDEX. 


M. — Macrinus  Imp.  8.  20. 

Magnetius,  10.  9. 

Mancinus  (Oasul  pacem  infamem 
cum  Numantiuis  facit^  4.  17. 

Marcellus  vincit  GaIloK,3.  6.  in  Si- 
cilia  prospere  rem  gerit,  3.  14. 
occiditurab  Annibale.  3.  6. 

Marcomannicuui  bcllum,  8.  12. 

Marius,  4.  27,  »Scc. 

Marsi  rum  aliis  gravissimum  mo- 
vent bellum,  5.  3. 

Maventius  Ana:.  10,  2. 

Maxiniianus  Imp.  9.  20. 

Maximinus  Imp.  9.  2. 

Mithridaticum   bellum,  5.  3,  Sec. 

Monetarii  rebellant  in  urbe,9.  14. 

Mummius  Consul  Corinthum  di- 
ruit,  4.  14. 

^'. — Nabis  Tv'rannus  Lacedjpmo- 
niorum  vincitur  u  T.  Quinto 
Flaminio,  4.  2. 

Varseus  Rex  Armenia  bellum  in- 
fert    Orienti.  9.    22.    vincitur. 


9. 


2d. 


-Vt'potianus     invadit     Imperium, 

10.  11. 
Xero  Imp.  7.  14,  ice. 
Kerva  Imp.  8.  1. 
Nicomcdes  Rex  Rithynia?.  4.  20. 

.).  .5. 
Norbanus  Consul  a  Sylla  supera- 

tur,  5.  7. 
Xuma  Rex  Rom.  1.  3. 
Xumant.  bellum,  4.  17. 
Numerianus  Imp.  9.  18, 
O. — Octavianus  7.  1. 
0<lenatus  Palmyrenus  vincit  Per- 

sas,  9.  10  servat  imperium  in  O- 

riente,  9.  1 1.  occiditur,  9.  13. 
Opilius  Macrinus  Imp.  8.  21. 
Chcades  Imperio  Rom.  adduntur, 

7.  13. 


Otho 


mp. 


1  o. 


P. — Pacorus  intcrficitur,  7.  5. 
Pansa  Consul,  7.  1. 
Papirius  Cursor  Dictator   missus 
contra  Samnites,  2.  8. 
Perpenna  Consul,  4.  20. 
Perseus  inMaccdonia  rebellat,4.0, 
Pertinax  Imp.  8.  16. 
Pescenuius  Niger  Imp.  8.  18. 


Petreius  legatus  Pomptii  vinciter 
in  Hisi  ania  ab  J.  Caesare,  6.  20. 

Philippus  Rex  Macedonix  vinci- 
tur, 4.  2. 

Piraticum  bellum,  6.  12. 

Pius  Imp.  8.  8. 

Plautius  dux  Rom.  in  Britannia, 
7.  13. 

Plotina  uxor  Trajani,  S.  6. 

Pompeii  M.  ge.sta,  5.  8,  9.  6.  12, 
13,  14,  19,  90,  21. 

Porsena  Rex  Hetruria?,   1.  II. 

Proculus  sumpta  purpura  opprimi- 
tur,9.  17. 

Prusias,  Rex  Bithyniae,  4.  5,  6,  8. 

Psuedo  Perseus,  4.  15. 

Publicola,  1.  10. 

Pupienus  Imp.  9.  2. 

Pyrrhus  bellum  gerit  in  Rom.  2. 
11,  12,  13,  14. 

Q-— Q«adi  vincuntur,  S.  13. 

Quinquegentiani  Africam  infes- 
tant,  9.  22,domantur,  9.  23. 

Quintilius  Imp.  9.  12. 

R. — Reguli  gesta,  2.  21. 

Remus,  I.  i. 

Romulus,  1.  1,2. 

Rusticani  tumultuantur  in  Gallia, 
9.  20. 

5- — .S'abini  vincuntur,  I.  11. 
Saguntus    capitur    ab    Annibale, 


3.7. 


Salinator      Fincit      Asdrubalem, 
3.  18. 

Salvius  Julianu.s  Imp.  8.  17. 

Samniticum  bellum,  2.  8.  &  seij. 

'S'aturninus  Imperium  usurpans  op- 
primitur,  9.  17. 

Saxonesmare  infestant,  9.  21. 

Scipionis   Africani  majoris  gesta, 
^.15,  16,  20,21,  22,23. 

Sci[*ionis   Africani  minoris  gesta, 
:i.  K),  12,  17,  19. 

S'cipio  Asiatii  us,  4.  4. 

Sertorius  in  Ilispania  bellum  mo- 
vet,  6.  1. 

Servilii  cesta,  (5.  3. 

Servius  Rex  Romanonun,  1.  7. 

Severus  Imp.  8.  18,  19. 

Surenadux  Parthorum,  vincituj, 
6s  ]S. 


INDEX. 


SyJlae  gesta,  !j.  4,  See. 

Sypha.v,  Niunidiae  Rev,  capUu;-, 

3.  'JO. 
Syriacum  beiluin,  4.  3. 
T.— Tacitus  Iinj).  9.  16. 
Tarquinius  Superbus,  Rex  Rom. 

1.  8. 
Tetiicus,  9.  13. 
'Intones  vincuutur   a    C.    IMario, 

5.  1,'2. 
Tiberius  Imp.  7.  1 1. 
Tigraiies,  Rex  AiineniiT,  6.  3,  13. 
'J'itiis  Imp.  7.  '21. 
Tor<piati  pusfiia  cum  Gallo,  2.  5. 
Trajanus  Imp.  8.  '2,  Sic. 
Tribuiii    1*1.     piimum    creautur, 
J.  13, 


v. — Valerianus  Imp.  9.  7. 
Valerius  I'ublicola,  I.  9,  10,  11. 
Vano  (Terentius)  ad  Cannas  al» 

Anuibale  vincitur,  3,  10. 
Vecta    insula    additur     imperio, 

9.    17. 
Veientes  t.  2,4,  16,  19. 
Veiitidius  vincit  Parthos,  7.  5. 
V'ir;iinii  I'acinus,  1.  IS. 
V'iriatus,  4.  16. 
Vitellius  Imp.  7.  17. 
Volsci,  1.  14,   19. 
Volusiauus  Imp.  9.  5. 
X. — Xaiitippus   Rc;^ulum    pixlio 

supcratum  cupit,  2.  '21. 
Z. — Zenobia    Imperium   orieiiH* 

sibi  vindicat,  &c.  9.  13. 


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